Matthew Szostak on Hurdy Gurdy and Bob Lucas on Guitar

[tierelierer]

what happened to this video??? It was beautiful, and now only 1 second???

[spinellorgano1]

salve questo strumento e una meraviglia.... dove si può aquistare e come si chiama?

[highart2003]

This would be an awesome band to play the tetris theme

[heinz454]

Thats awesome.

I remember Ritchie Blackmore talking about those in Guitar World.

[bt2tags]

If you put a spinning motor on it you can play keys with both hands.

[MinoDerBarde]

The handle is used to produce rythm and different sounds by varying the speed... a motor couldn't do that... ;)

[derfsanderson]

unless you had a wah pedal that adjusts speed :)

[FancyUnicorn]

YOUUUUUUU Crank dat hurdy gurdy

[sharkyboy36]

the thing needs tuning, ive heard many Hurdy Gurdy's but this isnt how its suppose to sound.. hes not twitching his wrists at the right moments to give it the rythem and the Gurdy is new so its not tuned right.. dam

[tierelierer]

I guess you don't play h.g. yourself because "twitching his wrists"... is NOT how to play. Before you give bad comment, know what you are talking about

[kemulzo]

its to lousy

[mysagosa]

most amazing of all amazings.

[davebhg]

It sounds like the last 10 seconds or so is the start of 'les chevaux de bois', a valse by hurdy-gurdy maker Bernard Kerboeuf

[AllaboutSonata]

When my friend told me there was an instrument called Hurdy Gurdy I thought he was joking O_O

[cajonbongo2007]

Absolutely fantastic! I can never understand why the hurdy gurdy stopped being a mainstream instrument - although I hear that there is a sort of hurdy gurdy revival going on in France.

[PooPoo2U]

nah, it's still alive and well with those of us of polish, russian, and ukrainian ancestry.

i play one live with my band, and we're not even folk, haha

[Fi1988]

How does it work? I'm intrigued! How does it work/produce chords? Is it stringed on the inside?

[PooPoo2U]

the crank turns a wheel that runs perpendicular to the 3 strings in the body. 2 strings are drones, and the middle string's tone is changed by keys that change the pitch of the string.

[XxShebleepxX]

the wheel is just like a bow on a violin. just think of that intrument as a mechanical verson of a violin

[Kveldssang]

last ten seconds is ultra beutiful

[franzgammler]

5 stars.

[DragonWorshipper]

really beautiful! So emotional... just closed my eyes and listened...

[Shiek927]

XD, It was beautiful, though the kids in the beginning looked bored(one girl was flexing her wrist 0_0).

[didgeridood]

I think their reaction was "mesmerized". The girl flexing her wrist was also swaying her head to the music!

[theresadz]

I'm pretty sure she had either just performed or was getting ready to perform.

[fiernocht]

Ha mesmerized, its great you used that term because it is directly related to another instrument the Glass Armonica that was loved by an early psychology doctor named Mesmer or something like that... anywho look it up, its neat.

[fenrirlobo]

wonderful!