The second #gurdy back is on after rather a stressful gluing session inside a small, dark shed with candles for light. Now I know a little more about what it must have been like to be a luthier in the Middle Ages.
The second #gurdy back is on after rather a stressful gluing session inside a small, dark shed with candles for light. Now I know a little more about what it must have been like to be a luthier in the Middle Ages.
sweden I am making two more at the moment, so I need to come up with three names!
Hurdy #gurdy sighting on BBC2, in the promo for The Story of Music, BBC2 .
Hurdy #gurdy people: Buried on hurdygurdy.com is a full English translation of Broecker’s Die Drehlier!
Today I’ve gone from having almost no #gurdy wood to having almost all of my gurdy wood! Some exciting photos:
Unpacked, grouped:
Plywood for the wheels being cut:
And best of all, a gurdy egg made from all the tape used to package the materials!
Listening to @han’s 2010 dConstruct talk whilst wrestling with my printer. It will print my gurdy plans. I will make it.
@sophiedennis I went last year and it was fab. Just ordered my ticket — it’s an 18th birthday present from my parents
Finally got a #gurdy body design I’m happy with. Just spent 30 mins trying to persuade the printer to print it. Finally, success!
Iterating over a #gurdy with sharpies and a TV:
Oho, #firstsignofwinter: My hurdy #gurdy’s keyboard is beginning to play up up.
Just uploaded a demo of my Vio Hurdy Gurdy’s pickups: https://soundcloud.com/barnabywalters/vio-hurdy-gurdy-bouree-aurore-sand
Just realised where I’d seen the @geoloqi logo before. Hurdy Gurdies have loads of them inside:
I have found that, when travelling with a Hurdy Gurdy, perspectives change.
Items are no longer classified into “clothes, electronics, wash kit, etc”, they merely become “Gurdy padding” and “stuff which might damage the Gurdy”