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A lot of people set out to make a kit instrument with the thought that they'll save a lot of money and get a high quality hurdy-gurdy. It's a nice thought, but not very realistic. It's true that most kits are significantly cheaper than a completed instrument. A parallel might be a guitar kit: you can make a guitar from a Martin guitar kit, but it's very unlikely that you will end up with a guitar that's comparable in quality to a Martin, unless you've already made a whole bunch of guitars and already have the skills to make a really good guitar. He has worked as a research psychologist and was lecturer at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. Tyrolian Drehleier (Austria). Very similar to the tekerőlant, but usually has a diatonic keyboard. May be the historical source for the tekerő. [15] Here are some composers that wrote for the hurdy-gurdy during the baroque and classical period, and where you can find their music:

lira/лира (Russia). Guitar-shaped. Two drones + one diatonic melody string. Evenly spaced keyboard.

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Regional types of hurdy-gurdies since the Renaissance can also be classified based on wheel size and the presence or absence (and type) of a buzzing bridge. The following description of various types uses this framework: [15] [16] :23–40 Small wheel [ edit ]

Azumi, Eric (27 April 2017). "Hurdy Gurdy History: History Of The Hurdy Gurdy". Lark in the Morning . Retrieved 9 August 2023. As one woman who teaches him well in other ways suggests (too late to make much of a difference regarding her own fate);It's always hard to tell fiction from fact with Don -i'd like to believe that all stories are true. There was a time when Donovan was on the frontiers op pop music and was hip and happening. The cream of the crop so to speak. A time of magic, peace and love. He's quite disappointed that, so far, opportunity has passed him by -- and with the plague bearing down on them, it doesn't look like he'll have much of a chance in what looks like it won't be much of a future .....

Clearly it was time for a biography to be written about Donovan. And since nobody else was going to do it, Donovan had to shoulder that burden himself. The hurdy-gurdy is a very fussy instrument to make, and there are all sorts of mistakes that you have to avoid. Some of those mistakes (wheel angle, bridge placement, and key spacing to name a few) are irrevocable - you don't find out until you string it up, and you can't fix some of them without starting over. Because it's a kit, you're depending on the person who designed it to have avoided these problems, and on the woodworkers in the shop to have followed the design specifications to the letter. Regrettably, these two things don't always happen. The pitches on the organistrum were set according to Pythagorean temperament and the instrument was primarily used in monastic and church settings to accompany choral music. Abbot Odo of Cluny (died 942) is supposed to have written a short description of the construction of the organistrum entitled Quomodo organistrum construatur (How the Organistrum Is Made), [5] [6] known through a much later copy, but its authenticity is very doubtful. Another 10th-century treatise thought to have mentioned an instrument like a hurdy-gurdy is an Arabic musical compendium written by Al Zirikli. [2] One of the earliest visual depictions of the organistrum is from the twelfth-century Pórtico da Gloria (Portal of Glory) on the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain: it has a carving of two musicians playing an organistrum. [7] :47 [8] :3 Hurdy-gurdy player in Saint-Jean-des-Ollières, Puy-de-Dôme (France) Description of types based on Nagy, Balázs (2006). Tekerőlantosok könyve: Hasznós kézikönyv tekerőlant-játékosok és érdeklődők számára / The Hurdy-Gurdy Handbook: A Practical Handbook for Players and Aficionados of the Tekerő (Hungarian Hurdy-Gurdy). Budapest: Hagyományok Háza / Hungarian Heritage House. ISBN 963-7363-10-6. Archived from the original on 2016-03-10 . Retrieved 2013-10-23.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – Four minuets (K601) Four German Dances (K602) Country Dance (K611) Oxford English Dictionaries online entry for hurdy-gurdy". oxforddictionaries.com. Archived from the original on August 10, 2012 . Retrieved 26 January 2016. I always thought Donovan got a raw deal in the endless comparisons with Dylan. I still think he is better. (They 'hung out' together quite a lot.) For anyone who was around in the 60s this is a great read. Donovan socialised or worked with just about any 'name' you can think of from those days of 'free love.' And Donovan got plenty of that too. The speed at which he moved from bumming around St Ives and learning guitar to releasing records and performing major gigs is amazing. Less than a year. I never realised how huge he was in the USA. Bigger than the UK.