This was the performance that made Gilles Chabenet my new favourite gurdy player: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZdVgitZUBg
This was the performance that made Gilles Chabenet my new favourite gurdy player: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZdVgitZUBg
Off to the workshop to make some last minute changes to my Vio Gurdy before Chateau d’Ars!
I did another Vio Gurdy Video: Foggy Dew: http://youtu.be/C30D9QH-wIc
Wooo! Came up with a new (AFAIK) Hurdy Gurdy technique.
I demonstrate my first hurdy gurdy build: http://youtu.be/HqWbRE_aGyI
Gurdy people: know anyone who wants to get into Gurdy playing? I’m making custom gurdies from £900, with the option to rent a symphonie 1/2 price whilst I’m building.
Fitted the low G string to my Gurdy. WOAH. I have been missing out all these years. Video coming soon.
I put all the Vio Gurdy info and links in one place: http://waterpigs.co.uk/lutherie/catalogue/hurdy-gurdies/vio/
Just did a photo shoot of my latest build: My Hurdy Gurdy!
Big thanks to Neil Brook (http://www.hurdy-gurdy.org.uk/) for his Gurdy setup help!
I got the first note out of my work in progress Gurdy today. Very happy. It’ll be ready in a few days.
The new Kipling ad music sounds very much like the wendigo by Steve Tyler
My first real attempt at a Gurdy track in Ableton Live. Made in about three hours of live looping, then a live mixdown http://soundcloud.com/barnabywalters/plastic-hill-concrete-dale
I figured out the reason my gurdy is taking so long to build: I make a mockup of it every five minutes http://flic.kr/p/bK5zyR
I figured out the reason my gurdy is taking so long to build: I make a mockup of it every five minutes http://flic.kr/p/bK5zyR
Woke up to a freshly glued hurdy Gurdy. That's a good feeling.
Secret Gurdy Feature: This image showed a secret feature, so I had to block it out in accordance with the laws of secrecy (Chapter 14, Section 47, Sub-section 19: If a photo contains something secret, it must be blended up in a manner most unusual) http://flic.kr/p/bCLGr6
It occurred to me that I haven't really shown anyone inside my workshop, so here's a shot of me with my gurdy mockup and one corner of it: flickr.com/photos/53044388@N05/6830794108/in/photostream