What the heck was that instrument he was playing? I've never seen such a
thing. I'm not sure I could hear it because I couldn't tell what the
heck we was doing with it aside from turning the crank.

I'm not sure I could hear it because I couldn't tell what the
heck we was doing with it aside from turning the crank.

I believe they were trying to save power and some of the more "green"
performers pitched in.



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"I know enough to know I don't know enough"

In article ,
EggHd wrote:
I'm not sure I could hear it because I couldn't tell what the
heck we was doing with it aside from turning the crank.

I believe they were trying to save power and some of the more "green"
performers pitched in.

I do not know, I did not see it. The only cranked instrument I know about,
though, is the Hurdy Gurdy.

It is a very annoying instrument.

--Chak






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"I know enough to know I don't know enough"

Chakaal The Indifferent wrote:

In article ,
EggHd wrote:

I'm not sure I could hear it because I couldn't tell what the
heck we was doing with it aside from turning the crank.

I believe they were trying to save power and some of the more "green"
performers pitched in.


I do not know, I did not see it. The only cranked instrument I know about,
though, is the Hurdy Gurdy.

It is a very annoying instrument.

I just did a Google search on Hurdy Gurdy, and that indeed is the
instrument. I've heard of them before, but I don't recall ever hearing one.

John

John Neiberger wrote:


I just did a Google search on Hurdy Gurdy, and that indeed is the
instrument. I've heard of them before, but I don't recall ever hearing one.

John, check the Acadamy Awards thread. We were talking about it there.

"Chakaal The Indifferent" wrote in message
...
In article ,
EggHd wrote:
I'm not sure I could hear it because I couldn't tell what the
heck we was doing with it aside from turning the crank.

I believe they were trying to save power and some of the more "green"
performers pitched in.

I do not know, I did not see it. The only cranked instrument I know
about,
though, is the Hurdy Gurdy.

It is a very annoying instrument.

--Chak

The is always the jack-in-the-box.

John L Rice

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 03:39:01 GMT, John Neiberger
wrote:

What the heck was that instrument he was playing? I've never seen such a
thing. I'm not sure I could hear it because I couldn't tell what the
heck we was doing with it aside from turning the crank.

I've got one. It's a Hurdy Gurdy. It was fun watching him try to sing
while turning the crank. "Pat your head while you rub your stomach."
It was kind of obvious he doesn't really play one - he just owns one.
The keys along the center that he didn't touch internally "fret"
notes. It sounds like a string bagpipe and has it's roots in France.
You can find his model at Lark In The Morning.

He was just using it as a drone, even though it was miked as poorly as
Elvis' guitar and you couldn't hear it.





Kurt Riemann

John L Rice wrote:

The is always the jack-in-the-box.


l.o.l.

A jack-in-the-box would have been more amusing. Sting looked awfully bored.

Kurt Riemann wrote:


He was just using it as a drone, even though it was miked as poorly as
Elvis' guitar and you couldn't hear it.

I turns out in both cases they were mic'd just about right

Chakaal The Indifferent wrote:

I do not know, I did not see it. The only cranked instrument I know about,
though, is the Hurdy Gurdy.

It is a very annoying instrument.

There's probably one in Scott's garage.


==
ha

"Chakaal The Indifferent" wrote in message
...

I do not know, I did not see it. The only cranked instrument I know
about,
though, is the Hurdy Gurdy.

It is a very annoying instrument.


Even to watch.

In article ,
hank alrich wrote:
Chakaal The Indifferent wrote:

I do not know, I did not see it. The only cranked instrument I know about,
though, is the Hurdy Gurdy.

It is a very annoying instrument.

There's probably one in Scott's garage.

No, no, Chakaal is much more apt to have weird instruments. Between the
two of us, though, we have everything covered.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

In Article plT0c.161691$uV3.711320@attbi_s51, John Neiberger
wrote:
What the heck was that instrument he was playing? I've never seen such a
thing. I'm not sure I could hear it because I couldn't tell what the
heck we was doing with it aside from turning the crank.


It was "the hurdy gurdy man, singing songs of love."

Donovan Leitch, circa 1970.

Ty (****, am I that old?!) Ford

For Ty Ford V/O demos, audio services and equipment reviews,
click on http://www.jagunet.com/~tford

Ty Ford wrote:

It was "the hurdy gurdy man, singing songs of love."

Donovan Leitch, circa 1970.

The album was released in 1968.

Ty (****, am I that old?!) Ford

Yep!

--
================================================== ======================
Michael Kesti | "And like, one and one don't make
| two, one and one make one."
| - The Who, Bargain

If you want annoying, http://www.hurdygurdy.com/hg/images/dance.jpg should
give you an idea. Not only 4 Hurdy Gurdies, but bag pipes and a cajun
concertina, too.

--


Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio

"Chakaal The Indifferent" wrote in message
...
In article ,
EggHd wrote:
I'm not sure I could hear it because I couldn't tell what the
heck we was doing with it aside from turning the crank.

I believe they were trying to save power and some of the more "green"
performers pitched in.

I do not know, I did not see it. The only cranked instrument I know
about,
though, is the Hurdy Gurdy.

It is a very annoying instrument.

--Chak






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"I know enough to know I don't know enough"

No, you're older!!

--


Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio

"Ty Ford" wrote in message
...
In Article plT0c.161691$uV3.711320@attbi_s51, John Neiberger
wrote:
What the heck was that instrument he was playing? I've never seen such a
thing. I'm not sure I could hear it because I couldn't tell what the
heck we was doing with it aside from turning the crank.


It was "the hurdy gurdy man, singing songs of love."

Donovan Leitch, circa 1970.

Ty (****, am I that old?!) Ford

For Ty Ford V/O demos, audio services and equipment reviews,
click on http://www.jagunet.com/~tford

"Roger W. Norman" wrote in message
...
If you want annoying, http://www.hurdygurdy.com/hg/images/dance.jpg should
give you an idea. Not only 4 Hurdy Gurdies, but bag pipes and a cajun
concertina, too.

There's a Boston band with two Theremins. It'd be fun to see those two
bands together for a Christmas special.

dtk

I just did a Google search on Hurdy Gurdy, and that indeed is the
instrument. I've heard of them before, but I don't recall ever hearing one.
Hurdy Gurdies were used quite effectively in the 70's by Irish
musicians such as Andy Irvine & Paul Brady.

Mike Cressey
Custom, quiet DAWs - http://www.MusicIsLove.com

In article ,
Scott Dorsey wrote:
In article ,
hank alrich wrote:
Chakaal The Indifferent wrote:

I do not know, I did not see it. The only cranked instrument I know about,
though, is the Hurdy Gurdy.

It is a very annoying instrument.

There's probably one in Scott's garage.

No, no, Chakaal is much more apt to have weird instruments. Between the
two of us, though, we have everything covered.
--scott

Er. Not quite. We got strings of all kinds. We got accordion and bagpipes.
We got acoustic and electric. We got no loud metal things you raspberry
into in order to get noise. We got only one drum. However, we got birds
that make more noise than any trumpet.

And a cat that whines and yaks on the carpet.

--Chak



--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Would that be the Lothars? I thought they had 3 or 4 theremins.

Phil, a theremax player

"dt king" wrote in message
news:yV31c.164590$jk2.606653@attbi_s53...
"Roger W. Norman" wrote in message
...
If you want annoying, http://www.hurdygurdy.com/hg/images/dance.jpg
should
give you an idea. Not only 4 Hurdy Gurdies, but bag pipes and a cajun
concertina, too.

There's a Boston band with two Theremins. It'd be fun to see those two
bands together for a Christmas special.

dtk

I thought it was a tantric speak and spell.


John Neiberger wrote in message news:plT0c.161691$uV3.711320@attbi_s51...
What the heck was that instrument he was playing? I've never seen such a
thing. I'm not sure I could hear it because I couldn't tell what the
heck we was doing with it aside from turning the crank.

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:29:07 -0500, "Roger W. Norman"
wrote:

If you want annoying, http://www.hurdygurdy.com/hg/images/dance.jpg should
give you an idea. Not only 4 Hurdy Gurdies, but bag pipes and a cajun
concertina, too.

The WMD's are found at last.

Chris Hornbeck

"Second star to the right,
Then straight on 'til morning."

On Tue, 2 Mar 04 14:28:05 GMT, (Ty Ford) wrote:

It was "the hurdy gurdy man, singing songs of love."

Donovan Leitch, circa 1970.

An exceptional album, featuring the future Led Zeppelin,
uncredited.

Chris Hornbeck

"Second star to the right,
Then straight on 'til morning."

"Roger W. Norman" wrote in message ...
If you want annoying, http://www.hurdygurdy.com/hg/images/dance.jpg should
give you an idea. Not only 4 Hurdy Gurdies, but bag pipes and a cajun
concertina, too.

which one are you?

rossi

(Chris Rossi)

"Roger W. Norman" wrote
If you want annoying, http://www.hurdygurdy.com/hg/images/dance.jpg should
give you an idea. Not only 4 Hurdy Gurdies, but bag pipes and a cajun
concertina, too.

which one are you?

And what happened to the Monkey? There's gotta be a monkey...



Will Miho
NY Music & TV Audio Guy
Off the Morning Show! & sleepin' In... / Fox News
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away..." Tom Waits

Not in the right hands it aint....

There is a Lorena Mckennit track, the name of which escapes me which uses
Hurdy Gurdys and sounds fantastic.



"Chakaal The Indifferent" wrote in message
...
In article ,
EggHd wrote:
I'm not sure I could hear it because I couldn't tell what the
heck we was doing with it aside from turning the crank.

I believe they were trying to save power and some of the more "green"
performers pitched in.

I do not know, I did not see it. The only cranked instrument I know
about,
though, is the Hurdy Gurdy.

It is a very annoying instrument.

--Chak






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"I know enough to know I don't know enough"

Chakaal The Indifferent wrote:

And a cat that whines and yaks on the carpet.

Well, obviously, your cat wants a hurdy gurdy.

--
ha

In article ,
(hank alrich) wrote:

Chakaal The Indifferent wrote:

And a cat that whines and yaks on the carpet.

Well, obviously, your cat wants a hurdy gurdy.

--
ha


I suspect a hurdy-gurdy would be an excellent cat repellent. They sure hate my
wife's new accordion. I think they equate it with the vacuum cleaner.

-Jay
--
x------- Jay Kadis ------- x---- Jay's Attic Studio ------x
x Lecturer, Audio Engineer x Dexter Records x
x CCRMA, Stanford University x http://www.offbeats.com/ x
x-------- http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~jay/ ----------x

In article writes:

And a cat that whines and yaks on the carpet.

Well, obviously, your cat wants a hurdy gurdy.

If that was my cat, he or she would become a part of a hurdy gurdy
pretty quick.


--
I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo

Mike Rivers wrote:

walkina writes:

And a cat that whines and yaks on the carpet.

Well, obviously, your cat wants a hurdy gurdy.

If that was my cat, he or she would become a part of a hurdy gurdy
pretty quick.

Golly, Mike, you sound cranky.

--
ha

In article ,
(hank alrich) wrote:

Mike Rivers wrote:

walkina writes:

And a cat that whines and yaks on the carpet.

Well, obviously, your cat wants a hurdy gurdy.

If that was my cat, he or she would become a part of a hurdy gurdy
pretty quick.

Golly, Mike, you sound cranky.

--
ha

You know, I had my hands on a hurdy gurdy that a friend of mine made from
a kitset. Neither he nor I were cranky at the time. That is not, however,
to say that that condition of uncrankiness still prevails. Old(er) and
cranky(er) springs to mind. It was my 62nd birday yesterday NZ time, but
if you are reading this today time in the bit of the earth that's behind
where I am you can sing happy birthday on the voice of choice.

Do I win today's prize for the rambliest post?

Oh and Hank, that was a coffee through the noise one liner!

--
Mike Clayton

"Roger W. Norman" wrote in message ...
If you want annoying, http://www.hurdygurdy.com/hg/images/dance.jpg should
give you an idea. Not only 4 Hurdy Gurdies, but bag pipes and a cajun
concertina, too.


Urgh. That was the dance for our first hurdy-gurdy festival. OK,
perhaps not the hurdy-gurdy at its best, but far better than its worst
- guess you had to be there.

FWIW, in the wrong hands or poorly built or poorly adjusted, the HG is
an instrument of torture. In the right hands, with a good instrument
and good setup, it's a beautiful and fascinating instrument.

Alden "hurdy-gurdies are my life" Hackmann
www.hurdygurdy.com

"Keith" wrote in message ...
Not in the right hands it aint....

There is a Lorena Mckennit track, the name of which escapes me which uses
Hurdy Gurdys and sounds fantastic.


That's Nigel Eaton, who plays on several of her albums.

Alden

In article ,
Jay Kadis wrote:
In article ,
(hank alrich) wrote:

Chakaal The Indifferent wrote:

And a cat that whines and yaks on the carpet.

Well, obviously, your cat wants a hurdy gurdy.

He might.


--
ha


I suspect a hurdy-gurdy would be an excellent cat repellent. They sure hate my
wife's new accordion. I think they equate it with the vacuum cleaner.

My bird HATES my accordion. It's an inoffensive little B/C button
accordion.

--Chak


-Jay
--
x------- Jay Kadis ------- x---- Jay's Attic Studio ------x
x Lecturer, Audio Engineer x Dexter Records x
x CCRMA, Stanford University x http://www.offbeats.com/ x
x-------- http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~jay/ ----------x

Chakaal The Indifferent wrote:

My bird HATES my accordion. It's an inoffensive little B/C button
accordion.

Only for certain values of inoffensive.

--
ha