Horns up for the hurdy-gurdy. The quirky Renaissance instrument proves it’s a match for heavy metal band, System of the Down. What happens when you combine a popular, boxy, Renaissance string ...
Something for nearly every taste can be heard in the coming days, from the hurdy-gurdy to the organ to the bagpipes to Gershwin. Musica Sacra: Soprano Linda Tsatsanis and lutist John Lenti perform ...
The only difference was, bagpipes usually sound like a polyphonic assembly while this sound seems like a lone voice shrewdly culled from such an assembly, singled out, groomed up and presented to us ...
Twenty-seven years ago, in search of a hurdy-gurdy master, Donald Heller wandered into a music shop in Budapest. There, he saw a beautiful maiden, an ancient-looking stringed instrument in her lap, ...
The Hurdy-Gurdy continues to worm its way into pole position as the hacker’s instrument. How else could you explain a medieval wheel fiddle being turned into a synthesizer? Move over, keytar — [Rory ...
1 Review: BBC PROMS: MAHLER'S FIRST BY HEART, Royal Albert Hall 2 Review: BBC PROMS: RACHMANINOV’S ‘PAGANINI’ VARIATIONS, Royal Albert Hall 3 Review: BBC PROMS: ROSSINI'S 'STABAT MATER', Royal Albert ...
It's a sign of old age when digging out the hurdy gurdy and gittern seems to come around all too quickly, but here we are again with the York Waits celebrating another Festive Season. They form part ...
If you’re looking for a long journey into the wonderful world of instrument hacking, [Arty Farty Guitars] is six parts into a seven part series on hacking an existing guitar into a ...
It never hurts to iterate the phrase “Op-Ed” at the beginning of articles in this section. It may help us (in this case, I) remember that the writer is not an encyclopedia or – to be more current – ...
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