Oxford English Dictionaries online entry for hurdy-gurdy". oxforddictionaries.com. Archived from the original on August 10, 2012 . Retrieved 26 January 2016.

Banshee in Avalon (2014-11-27). "A Hurdy Gurdy and MIDI controller". audiofanzine . Retrieved 2018-12-08. This is a very engaging and informative autobiography. It's also a really good way to set the record straight. Donovan has gotten a really raw deal. His musical importance has been overshadowed by both the Beatles (whom he was friends with) and Bob Dylan(he was also friendly with Dylan) and because he left the business fairly young to follow a more spiritual path and raise his kids. He also lived a more healthy lifestyle and did not let ambition rule his life. He does come off a bit self-aggrandizing at times--only slightly and I believe that part of that is due to being treated as a piece of fluff by many in the musical community and of course among the vultures of the journalism business. He did do many things first that more famous musicians did later and I suspect anyone would get tired of seeing things they did first heralded by the world as revolutionary when done by others. What is amazing about this is that the very people he's accused of imitating or riding the coattails of, have come forward themselves to give him credit including the Beatles, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. I personally am not a fan of Dylan (he is compared to Dylan most of all)--I never have been--I can admit to his song writing ability but I would rather be tied to a chair and beaten with a rubber hose than forced to listen to his nasal whining and I think he is incredibly overrated. But even Dylan himself has gone on record to say he liked Donovan, learned things from Donovan and gave Donovan his due. He released many critically acclaimed albums in the last decade and was involved in many of the big and important music festivals during the 60's. He's had a long and strong marriage and raised his children with his wife as well as her son by Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. He's continued to write music and poetry. And he comes off as an overall nice guy. If you read Italian, we recommend La Ghironda by Marcello Bono. He's an excellent maker and player, and there are some Hurdy Gurdy is a touching coming-of-age tale, joyful and extremely funny. It cleverly dissects medieval beliefs, while suggesting that perhaps we aren’t as wise in the modern day as we think we are.IMSLP: The largest resource of public domain music available on the Internet, and yes, there are loads of scores and music for the Vielle. Clearly it was time for a biography to be written about Donovan. And since nobody else was going to do it, Donovan had to shoulder that burden himself. lira/лира (Russia). Guitar-shaped. Two drones + one diatonic melody string. Evenly spaced keyboard.

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) 8 notturni and 5 concertos for lira organizzata, a hurdy gurdy type that featured organ pipes, also pieces for King Ferdinand of Naples. Much of the humour in Hurdy Gurdy stems from Diggory’s twisted logic, such as his reasoning that the deadly pox prefers to travel north, or the many deceptively pious excuses he comes up with for his newly rampant libido. When he’s left to fill a mass grave, he typically overthinks and arranges the bodies according to Pythagoras’ theorem, to economise on space.

It's hardly surprising, in these unsettled circumstances, but Diggory's situation seems almost extreme, even considering these. Izci, Aylin (2017-06-23). "Alles andere als altmodisch: die elektrische Drehleier"[All-other than old-fashioned: the electric hurdy-gurdy]. enemy.at (in German) . Retrieved 2018-12-08. Because, as he can't help but observe, despite not having the pox himself: "it does always follow me, close behind, wherever I go ...". Regional types of hurdy-gurdies since the Renaissance can also be classified based on wheel size and the presence or absence (and type) of a buzzing bridge. The following description of various types uses this framework: [15] [16] :23–40 Small wheel [ edit ]

tekerőlant (Hungarian). Usually two drones (sometimes three) + one or two chromatic melody strings. The broad keybox is often carved or decorated extensively. He is experienced -- perhaps in more ways than he would have liked -- but also knows that his future path lies outside the confines of the monastery, and he makes a life for himself beyond it (but still nearby), utilizing what he has learnt. The reason we still care about Donovan is, of course, those deathless songs; he was a phenomenal melodicist with a clear, compelling voice. But even there, he focuses on the uninteresting parts, typing out the lyrics to even insipid ditties such as “There Is a Mountain” as though they were and remain deeply, soulfully meaningful to us. How did the lovely “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” happen? He doesn’t tell us. In fact, readers will have long glommed onto why so many that Diggory encounters soon later find themselves suffering from the plague.

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History [ edit ] Ancient kings playing an organistrum at the Pórtico de la Gloria in the Catedral de Santiago de Compostela in Santiago de Compostela, Spain

But, as the deadly plague approaches, he does have some regrets -- notably, how little he has experienced at his tender age. This is Donovan's account of his life of sex, drugs, and music stardom, until 1970, when he burned out and dropped out, at age 24. He tells us of his concert tours, thirteen hit singles, two hundred of his songs recorded by other artists. p. 287.Niněra (Czech). Guitar-shaped. Two forms: one has a standard drone-melody arrangement, while the other runs the drone strings between the melody strings in the keybox. Both diatonic and chromatic forms are found. Other mechanisms for adjusting the amount of "buzz" on the trompette string. Zanfona (Spain). Typically guitar-shaped body, with three melody strings, and two drone strings. Some older examples had a diatonic keyboard, and most modern models have a chromatic keyboard. Zanfonas are usually tuned to the key of C major, with the melody strings tuned in unison to G above the middle C on the piano. The drones are: the bordonciño in G (one octave below the melody strings) and the bordón in C (two octaves below middle C). Sometimes, two of the melody strings are in unison, and the remaining string is tuned an octave lower, in unison with the bordonciño (this string was sometimes known as the human voice, because it sounds as if someone is humming the melody an octave lower). I needed to be part of this family because I knew that pop success endangered my well-being in many ways. p. 164. The drone strings produce steady sounds at fixed pitches. The melody string(s) (French chanterelle(s), Hungarian dallamhúr(ok)) are stopped with tangents attached to keys that change the vibration length of the string, much as a guitarist uses his or her fingers on the fretboard of a guitar. In the earliest hurdy-gurdies these keys were arranged to provide a Pythagorean temperament, but in later instruments the tunings have varied widely, with equal temperament most common because it allows easier blending with other instruments. However, because the tangents can be adjusted to tune individual notes, it is possible to tune hurdy-gurdies to almost any temperament as needed. Most contemporary hurdy-gurdies have 24 keys that cover a range of two chromatic octaves. In the eighteenth century, the term hurdy-gurdy was also applied to a small, portable barrel organ or street organ (a cranked box instrument with a number of organ pipes, a bellows and a barrel with pins that rotated and programmed the tunes) that was frequently played by poor buskers, street musicians specifically called organ grinders. Such organs require only the turning of the crank to play; the music is coded by pinned barrels, perforated paper rolls, and, more recently, by electronic modules. [14] The French call these organs Orgue de Barbarie ("Barbary organ"), while the Germans and Dutch say Drehorgel and draaiorgel ("turned organ"), instead of Drehleier ("turning lyre"). In Czech, the organ is called Flašinet.