Arnaud Lachambre: Branle des Chevaulx

[frenchiecocorico1]

Bien sûr comme chacun le sait déjà, le "Bransle des chevaux" provient du traité de dances de la renaissance française "L'orchésographie" publié à Langres en 1589 par Thoinot Arbeau (anagramme de Jehan Tabourot)

Chris Allen est un célèbre facteur de vielle à roue britannique (Merthyr Vale / CF 48 4RS Wales (UK))

"Horses Brawl" is extracted from the french renaissance dance treatise "L''orchésographie" by Thoinot Arbeau edited in Langres (1589)

Chris Allen is a famous hurdy Gurdy builder (UK)

[belamoure]

Vous feriez fureur au festival médiéval de Québec. 

[soundslikemeagain]

Hi !

Love the HurdyGurdy, am planing to build one soon ;-)

[oneishut]

After half an hour of looking at various hurdy gurdy videos (I was just trying at first to find out what a hurdy gurdy was), this is the first one I wanted to hear more than once. Need I say more?

[bobbydj01]

Carol wrote a letter...

[Diavidia]

Super ! J'adore. Merci pour le partage.

Amitié de Corse

Dia

[Gwywen]

Thanks for uploading this video, it explains very clearly why the wheel on the right is turned fast or slow from time to time.

And the energy with which you're playing is making me smile every time :)

[kevenharbour]

Ou a tu acheter cet instrument Arnaud :P :O?

[franziskaner6282]

You are a monster playing this instrument,do you know some disco with this music??Sorry for my english,I´m spanish.

You have mu 5 stars!!

[linsay5840]

great it beautiful it funny i love god job !!!!!

[MischievousGoat]

Great performance :-)

[690SONER]

no entiendo tu respuesta . sorry.

[ArnaudLachambre]

Oops! So my broken Spanish is crap. I just wanted to look clever by saying something silly in Spanish! More seriously, I'm glad you enjoyed it and danced to it... Have fun!...

[690SONER]

muy bueno, muy bueno

I´m Spanish and I danced it. Very good.

[ArnaudLachambre]

Claro que si!!!

[Lucius1958]

Nice rendition!

I never get tired of that tune......

[Astal4352]

Félicitations! interprétation particulière, mais bien personnalisée et rythme vivant! je n'ai que des félicitations!

[phoenixstar13]

this is brilliant! it's wonderful to see this piece being performed even though it's only a video.

[redblossoms07]

wow....

so how in the world does this marvelous instrument work??

[ArnaudLachambre]

It's a kind of mechanical fiddle. The strings are bowed by the wheel, and you finger the notes on the keyboard. In addition there are drone strings, one of which, the trumpet string, rests on a mobile bridge and produces the rhythmic buzzing. Wow, I kinda managed to explain how a gurdy works in 5 lines only, that's quite incredible! There is so much more to say!...

[kronan000]

wooow,

respect,

sinon, la meule, ça use pas trop les cordes???

[ArnaudLachambre]

Merci!

Non, la roue n'use pas les cordes car on les recouvre de coton autour du point de contact. D'autre part, quand la vielle est bien réglée (vaste sujet!), les cordes appuient sur la roue juste ce qu'il faut, pas plus, pas moins, comme l'archet d'un violoniste.