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It's gotta be the Hurdy Gurdy

http://www.altarwind.com/moncur.htm


GRANNY.

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It is the butt. Particularly when fed with beans, the musical fruit.

*giggles*

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Originally posted by smw6869
It's gotta be the Hurdy Gurdy

http://www.altarwind.com/moncur.htm


GRANNY.
I love the hurdy-gurdy.

This is Dupain (hurdy-gurdy on the left).

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Originally posted by Seitse
It is the butt. Particularly when fed with beans, the musical fruit.

*giggles*
Well, i was thinking more of visual beauty, but you, i must admit, are correct in either case. Sheesh!

GRANNY.

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You can't play a flute with your butt after all, say researchers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/07/sam-leith-shocking-news-oxford

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbpvptncbF1qzaos7o1_500.jpg

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The piano. The oud. The clarinet.

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Originally posted by FMF
The piano. The oud. The clarinet.
I don't have one specific favourite, but I tend to prefer the ones whose range is the closest to the human voice: cello, tenor gamba, bassoon, tenor lute, that kind of thing.

Richard

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Originally posted by Seitse
It is the butt. Particularly when fed with beans, the musical fruit.

*giggles*
a la Man Ray.

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The drum.

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Originally posted by Palynka
The drum.
The sneer drum, the queer drum, the stare drum, the square drum, the blare drum, the flare drum, the steer drum, the spear drum ...

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
I love the hurdy-gurdy.

This is Dupain (hurdy-gurdy on the left).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFcsvOJO0s4
Interesting, Occitane music. A good friend of mine Yves Chandon, lives in Chernoble and is an expert in Occitane or Occitan sometimes spelled, it was the original troubadour language of the region, the first novels were in that language. The French barely tolerate it if Yves is to be believed! Even though Occitan is much older than French.

I couldn't hear much of the gurdy in that band though. I would like to have heard it in a more traditional setting like this which seems to be to my mind the bluegrass of Hurdy Gurdy🙂

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
The sneer drum, the queer drum, the stare drum, the square drum, the blare drum, the flare drum, the steer drum, the spear drum ...
The humdrum.

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Originally posted by sonhouse

I couldn't hear much of the gurdy in that band though. I would like to have heard it in a more traditional setting like this which seems to be to my mind the bluegrass of Hurdy Gurdy🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04cKuOZo1jc
Catalan is quite similar to Occitan, it's faring somewhat better.

You might like hurdy-gurdy virtuoso Valentin Clastrier.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Catalan is quite similar to Occitan, it's faring somewhat better.

You might like hurdy-gurdy virtuoso Valentin Clastrier.
Yeah, I know they are similar languages. BTW, Yves lives in Grenoble not Chernoble, a WEE bit of difference🙂 Too bad you can't hear him sing and play, he is a virtuoso also, not on the Gurdy though.

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The viola da gamba is wonderful! Also love the theorbo. Hard to beat the hurdy gurdy, though!