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Anyone know anything about a Hurdy Gurdy?
Posted on 11/17/20 at 2:03 pm
Posted on 11/17/20 at 2:03 pm
Love the sound, interested in acquiring one maybe. Any leads? Anyone ever play one or own one?
Here’s a sample Sweet Dreams cover by Patty Gurdy
Thanks
Here’s a sample Sweet Dreams cover by Patty Gurdy
Thanks
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Posted on 11/17/20 at 2:11 pm to fr33manator
I like the scene in polar express where the hobo is playing a hurdy gurdy on the top of the train
Posted on 11/17/20 at 5:07 pm to fr33manator
I don’t know, but Donovan’s Hurdy Gurdy Man makes me feel like I smoked a whole pot.
Posted on 11/18/20 at 9:19 am to fr33manator
Zanfona?
Posted on 11/18/20 at 1:42 pm to fr33manator
It can be a very creepy and unsettling sounding instrument.
Posted on 11/18/20 at 3:19 pm to jdd48
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It can be a very creepy and unsettling sounding instrument.
It seems to me, like it's machine that is designed to mimic a fiddle of some sort. Whatever comes out of it, depends on whoever is playing it.
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here are some for sale
This post was edited on 11/18/20 at 3:23 pm
Posted on 11/18/20 at 3:35 pm to fr33manator
Twas then when the hurdy gurdy man
Came singing songs of love
Then when the hurdy gurdy man
Came singing songs of love
Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy gurdy he sang
Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy gurdy he sang
Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy gurdy he sang.
Came singing songs of love
Then when the hurdy gurdy man
Came singing songs of love
Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy gurdy he sang
Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy gurdy he sang
Hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy, hurdy gurdy gurdy he sang.
Posted on 11/18/20 at 7:55 pm to fr33manator
Butthole Surfers - The Hurdy Gurdy Man
My favorite version.
My favorite version.
This post was edited on 11/18/20 at 7:56 pm
Posted on 11/18/20 at 8:29 pm to fr33manator
Posted on 11/19/20 at 6:11 pm to auggie
Yeah apparently quality ones are stupid expensive
But I still want one. I collect instruments
But I still want one. I collect instruments
Posted on 11/19/20 at 9:25 pm to fr33manator
Honestly, your thread has got me kind of interested too. Seems to me, that it may be a fairly easy instrument to learn, and has a great sound. 1200 bucks doesn't seem all that bad for such a complicated instrument.
Posted on 11/19/20 at 11:48 pm to auggie
Outside of hearing the song by Donavan, I didn't know what this was. Thanks for sending me down that rabbit hole. 
I've always had a knack to be able to pick up different instruments and and play them. Like the other poster said, for $1200 I'm interested in getting one now for their uniqueness.
I've always had a knack to be able to pick up different instruments and and play them. Like the other poster said, for $1200 I'm interested in getting one now for their uniqueness.
Posted on 11/20/20 at 12:52 am to mingoswamp
24 keys, that are just basically fretting strings mechanically against a rosined wheel and has a sound like that. If you can change directions in that wheel kind of fast, you can probably get some fantastic sounds. If you messed around with some different tunings on it, who knows what you might get out of it...
Really a genius instrument when you think about it. Like putting a rubber wheel on a die grinder, and playin your guitar with it
...and what if you built one with a resonator behind it? or maybe a slide hurdy gurdy…
What if you had a quiet electric motor on your hurdy gurdy wheel, with a foot pedal speed control? and distortion and delay...
Really a genius instrument when you think about it. Like putting a rubber wheel on a die grinder, and playin your guitar with it
...and what if you built one with a resonator behind it? or maybe a slide hurdy gurdy…
What if you had a quiet electric motor on your hurdy gurdy wheel, with a foot pedal speed control? and distortion and delay...
This post was edited on 11/20/20 at 11:47 am
Posted on 11/20/20 at 12:03 pm to auggie
"Hurdy Gurdy Wheel" ..damn, what a hook for a song! or the name of a band..
This post was edited on 11/20/20 at 12:27 pm
Posted on 11/20/20 at 12:24 pm to fr33manator
Posted on 11/20/20 at 12:36 pm to GEAUXT
This hurdy gurdy thread, get's more interesting by the minute.
Posted on 11/21/20 at 9:55 pm to fr33manator
The Decemberists use a Hurdy Gurdy
Posted on 11/22/20 at 4:09 am to fr33manator
Always considered a HG to be much like a banjo. Where most anyone can pick it up (esp being open tuned) and come up with a passable tune. Yet in the wrong hands you might avoid them like the plague.
However when done right
. . . although never had the good fortune to handle one.
However when done right
. . . although never had the good fortune to handle one.Posted on 12/2/20 at 1:27 am to awestruck
Lol, I have a banjo also...can’t play a damn thing
Posted on 12/2/20 at 8:07 am to fr33manator
For shits and giggles he is the metal band Eluveitie who has a HG player in the band
Eluveitie-Rebirth
Eluveitie-Rebirth
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