Caroline Phillips: Hurdy-gurdy for beginners

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13 жыл бұрын

www.ted.com Caroline Phillips cranks out tunes on a seldom-heard folk instrument: the hurdy-gurdy, a.k.a. the wheel fiddle. A searching, Basque melody follows her fun lesson on its unique anatomy and 1,000-year history.
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@irateofwatford 10 жыл бұрын

"Seldom heard"? My neighbor in the apartment upstairs gets to hear it any time I chose!

@JohannesGeworkianHellman 3 жыл бұрын

Haha!

@DoubleADwarf 6 жыл бұрын

I can't be the only one to think putting a three-minute ad at the end of a five minute video is INCREDIBLY tacky.

@Riplee 3 жыл бұрын

well anything that long is skippable, & at least it’s not at the start, it’s where you’re likely to leave before the video is even done? For the quality of these videos, I see no harm in them trying to earn a little, and they do it in a less intrusive manner than some others might have it..

@DeathMetalDerf 6 ай бұрын

Far from the only one, my guy.

@ericlindemann2558 7 жыл бұрын

There is just one tiny little mistake in mentioning the hurdy gurdy: it also was used in Germany and Austria. So if you like, here is theGerman name of the Hurdy: "Drehleier". Even today, we have quite a big community which is playing Mediaval Rock and Folk, using the "Drehleier" :-)

@villevunge6624 7 жыл бұрын

+Eric I think most european countries have had a tradtition of playing hurdy gurdy..

@nachtpfoetchen 6 жыл бұрын

Also in ukraine

@MrPleers 6 жыл бұрын

True. In the Netherlands it was played as well. It's called a "draailier" here.

@bonnylark 4 жыл бұрын

Also, there are guitar-shaped gurdies, as well, like my little Bassot. And Celtic is pronounced Keltic. C never makes an S sound in Gaelic. The Boston Celtics are the exception, in protest to the snooty Harvard professors who tried to correct the townies.

@MG-ln1yw 3 жыл бұрын

Also Sweden, called "Vevlira".

@jpardue 13 жыл бұрын

I find this instrument most impressive and a complete surprise, another great reason I watch TED's videos. The presentation by Caroline is brief and elegant, we get a quick sample of some music, and a rare listen to Basque vocals. Totally outstanding, an interesting peek into musical antiquity, and one of the wonders brought to me by the internet and a bit of computer technology. Bravo, Caroline Phillips and TED for enlightening me and expanding my awareness.

@KawhackitaRag 11 жыл бұрын

A hurdy-gurdy is a stringed bagpipe. That can be either a put-down or a boost-up depending upon whether or not you like bagpipes and whether or not you like hurdy-gurdies.

@net_spider Жыл бұрын

There is also sympathetic strings. Kinda new on Hurdy Gurdys, but the idea is that the whole instrument is vibrating while in use... so why not harness that vibration into sound? These strings aren't located on the wheel and instead line the body of the instrument on either side of it (usually 3 or 4 grouped together on either side of the instrument for a total of 6 to 8 sympathetic strings). These strings are typically quieter than the other strings, but help amplify and compliment the sounds being created.

@FitZhurdygurdy 10 ай бұрын

Yep, sympathetic strings are just to add tone and a slight reverb effect to the gurdy. They've been a feature of French gurdies since about the 1700's and usually come in a set of 4. Probably inspired by the viola d'amore.

@DeadWhiteButterflies 13 жыл бұрын

I love her voice. I always was intrigued by the instrument. It's nice to see something like this. Makes me want one now!

@eriklenh 10 жыл бұрын

Very nice. But its indeed also player in Germany ("Drehleier")

@TheLaughingOut 13 жыл бұрын

In my experience, an instrument sounds so much more beautiful when I know how it works. Thank you TEDtalks!

@DylanFanification 10 жыл бұрын

Absolutely wonderful! I love the hurdy-gurdy. Mummers Dance by Loreena Mckennitt inspired me to seek out this instrument!

@dslkjvoxicuyhgl4554 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, haven't heard that song, or any Loreena Mckennitt in YEARS. Now I gotta listen to The Highwayman. Song always game me goosebumps in the middle, like no other song. Had no idea that was the Hurdy Gurdy, thought it was a cello or something.

@janelangford2693 Жыл бұрын

LOREENA MCKENNIT YES

@BRIERFOX 11 жыл бұрын

what a beautiful voice and a great talent.....love the hurdy gurdy.

@journeyer58 13 жыл бұрын

@luddomatic TED means Technology, Entertainment and Design, meaning all three can and should be talked about. TED has become a major source of lectures for me. They show the range of people and their causes. Thanks TED for the breadth and depth of lectures on all meaningful causes.

@RyanRancidStaines 8 жыл бұрын

WOW!!!! amazing I also want one now ive alway loved medieval music

@P00P0STER0US 13 жыл бұрын

Neat instrument, it's amazing the many ways clever people have devised to create unique sounds.

@eddygonzalez6018 4 жыл бұрын

Love the sound of Euskaldunak been spoken.

@nathanvanmiddlesworthmedia844 10 жыл бұрын

The buzzing bridge is also used on Tromba Marina,but...I wouldn't expect many people to know that! :D

@lauralairose5164 8 жыл бұрын

I want a Hurdy Gurdy!

@mythocrat 8 жыл бұрын

+Lauralai Elizalove me tooo! :'(

@Zeagods-CyberShadow 4 жыл бұрын

Also to

@BrickDevourer 3 жыл бұрын

Same but they are 1200 minimum :(

@someonesendhelpplease 3 жыл бұрын

@@BrickDevourer buy a Nerdy Gurdy, you assemble it yourself and it costs like 300

@BrickDevourer 3 жыл бұрын

@@someonesendhelpplease now that's something I can actually afford

@MrFair 11 жыл бұрын

Yes, I also found that quite suprising. Especially since there are a lot of modern german folk bands nowadays who play the hurdy-gurdy.

@EclecticSceptic 13 жыл бұрын

This is great! I'd never seen or heard of that instrument.

@astrophonix 13 жыл бұрын

Beautiful sound!

@Yanto2013 3 жыл бұрын

This is Fascinating.

@KawhackitaRag 11 жыл бұрын

I don't know if it's the "only instrument" played using a rotating rosined wheel and a crank... there were keyboard instruments in the 1500s and 1600s which did a similar thing, named "geigenwerk", "viola organista", and "bogenclavier". In the 19th century, the Kaufman family came up with the "Harmonichord". However I would agree with her that the hurdy-gurdy is the only really PORTABLE such instrument, much in the way a guitar is more portable than an (acoustic) piano!

@nyser1 13 жыл бұрын

I loved it!

@Damdenn 13 жыл бұрын

pretty cool stuff. Makes me wonder where I could get one and start to learn to play.

@willowtreephoto 13 жыл бұрын

wonderful!

@rustyjones7908 10 жыл бұрын

Show of hand: Who here wandered to this video after listening to Eluveitie?

@finfan7 9 жыл бұрын

Arcane led me here.

@MrKDB001 8 жыл бұрын

+Rusty Jones them and Guilhem Desq.

@Skiamakhos 7 жыл бұрын

Nah, came here from Patty Gurdy & Stormseeker :-)

@xerospacious4024 7 жыл бұрын

ski, same

@edi9892 7 жыл бұрын

Guess not. Faun, Omnia, or Patty Gurdy may be the cause.

@098anne 13 жыл бұрын

I love this instrument! The sound stirs my blood. Reminds me a bit of bagpipes. Love love love!

@HimmiJoe 13 жыл бұрын

Sweet, I want one of those! Very interesting looking instrument.

@guidi2005 13 жыл бұрын

Awesome i want one.

@helmsleyy 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks !

@livinginthepast3 13 жыл бұрын

@jay81rd I think capos can be used as a way to do play in other keys. Not familiar with how they work, but I read it somewhere...

@jozefkovac2806 9 жыл бұрын

You forget ot mantion hungarian verzion of hurdy-gurdy, so called Tekerő Lant.

@Snuffsis 13 жыл бұрын

Tbh, the rolex commercial at the end was better than the tedtalk itself, anyone agrees?

@hartleybanton6058 8 жыл бұрын

wonderful

@natural-self-healing 7 жыл бұрын

Was used also in Czechia and Slovakia, called NINERA (Ninyera)

@MountMonty 13 жыл бұрын

I need one of those.

@lynxu525 7 жыл бұрын

太迷人了！谢谢讲演者，也谢谢TED！

@KlaxontheImpailr 4 жыл бұрын

I can't help but smile at this :)

@Nyckelharpsmusik Жыл бұрын

Nice played and intressing explanations about musikhistory. I play the swedish Keyharp=(Nyckelharpa) .

@DeathMetalDerf 6 ай бұрын

Whenever I think of the music this thing creates it usually comes to me in a sad-sounding, droning, minor key kind of way. I've never really heard "happy" sounding music in a major key come from a hurdy-gurdy. Now I want one to add to my collection of musical instruments I can't play but own anyway.

@MetroCammellDMUs 5 жыл бұрын

the Hurdy-Gurdy is used for the Music in the TV series Black Sails. definately creates the sound for Pirates

@KawhackitaRag 11 жыл бұрын

Speaking of rotating rosined wheels, the Mills Violano-Virtuoso automatic violin player uses these for bows. They built at least one custom instrument with retractable keyboards for hand-playing (which exists), and had the "Mills Melody Violins" commercially available, which also featured two keyboards which could play four violins (no examples of this model are known today, unfortunately). I think is is not too hard to connect a MIDI keyboard to a MIDI-equipped Violano-Virtuoso.

@marcosPRATA918 8 жыл бұрын

Excelente apresentação. O Organistrum é um antecessor do Hurdy-gurdy, era tocado por duas pessoas.

@SuperWasweissichdenn 10 жыл бұрын

Of course!

@nonalolagirl 13 жыл бұрын

I think this is interesting. I want to play one

@Dice-Gamble 6 жыл бұрын

Black Sails brought me here. Love her intro and subsequent performance as well

@CodyAllenmusic 13 жыл бұрын

I love me a good Hurdy Gurdy. They are used a lot in viking music too.

@Dangbroo 3 жыл бұрын

in poland it's also a thing, it's called a lira korbowa which translates directly to crank lyre

@cn9630 6 жыл бұрын

I WOULD SOOOOO LOVE TO HAVE THIS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS INSTRUMENT

@BirdWhisperer46 2 жыл бұрын

Only about $4000

@totoro81791 13 жыл бұрын

That is one of the most beautiful hurdy gurdies that I've seen. Anyone know who the maker of that hurdy gurdy is?

@Visceral3D 13 жыл бұрын

sounds awesome :O

@lora_mist8928 8 ай бұрын

It’s like a string instrument that looked at all the others and was just like, YES

@christophermontoya5526 Жыл бұрын

At one point, I was trying to learn the French language. After practicing some basic words with a Rosetta Stone program, I attempted to read a French version of The Count of Monte Cristo. I saw the word vjel and consulted my French translation dictionary which told me vjel meant hurdy gurdy which, of course, was no help since I didn't know what a hurdy gurdy was. I'm building a ugears working toy model of one now. The instructions have tabs and ugears has tabs for it on KZfaq.

@KawhackitaRag 11 жыл бұрын

I must also add the "Wheelharp" to the list of keyboard-operated bowed-string instruments (acoustic instruments). This instrument is a new invention/refinement and is built by Antiquity Music in Calfiornia.

@rotomon 13 жыл бұрын

Probably my most favorite instrument besides a Nycleharpa

@Gilgamesh417 13 жыл бұрын

that basque song starts off so haunting

@leimo25 13 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool thing. Haven't heard it.

@OCSnowBoarder 13 жыл бұрын

was advert longer then the TEDTalk - Performance?

@MrKDB001 8 жыл бұрын

Misinformation: the hurdy gurdy is NOT the only wheeled string. there are at least two other traditional and several modern wheeled string instruments. By modern I am including one Da Vinci invented in the early 1500s.

@shiningarmor2838 8 жыл бұрын

My favorite is the wheelharp

@nowotnik 8 жыл бұрын

+MrKDB001 Misinformation: It wasn't "invented" by Da Vinci - bowing wheel idea was around since the XI C. and the instrument you are referring to is the bowed clavier, built in Germany and Netherlands in XVII c. as an experimental contraption. Da Vinci might have had the similar idea sketched but never got to build anything like that. It never got even close to the popularity of hurdy-gurdy and remained merely as an abandoned invention. Off course now, that the hurdy-gurdy is making its comeback, everyone is combining bowing wheel, keyboards, parts etc. and building their own cross-overs, which from the taxonomic point of view doesn't count in this discussion.

@makesquash 5 жыл бұрын

There's also a Pakistani instrument that's pretty simelar, it has a fretboard instead of keys.

@Maspootful 8 жыл бұрын

Does any one know the name of the song she plays at 2:50?

@MountMonty 13 жыл бұрын

@zarkoff45 Haha, that's what i was thinking during the vid but then i saw a cable already coming from the instrument :O

@jussts 13 жыл бұрын

Okay, I want one now.

@Duncan_Idaho_Potato 13 жыл бұрын

Hurdy gurdy turns up in the most unlikely places. For example, a Metallica song: Low Man's Lyric, from the album ReLoad.

@gspahr 13 жыл бұрын

@luddomatic Perhaps it's your screen, nothing happening on my laptop screen, but I understand what you mean, I saw this happen on many cathode-ray-tube screens.

@fnersch3367 5 жыл бұрын

Bowed instruments were introduced in to Europe about 1000 years ago from the Middle East. The hurdy gurdy followed soon after. The Bizantines got violin like instruments from the khans who in turn got them from China.

@Diacoustica 13 жыл бұрын

@carvin160 5:17 doesnt last long does he?

@ragnarocks0 13 жыл бұрын

@bigshel99 You are free to skip it , so i see no reason to complain.

@TheRealHedgeMonkey 13 жыл бұрын

i want one

@maaderllin 12 жыл бұрын

@withoutnameorplace In french it's pronounced Seltic, so it's an error french speaker are often making.

@anaisabelgarridomartinez7946 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful song in Euskara. Eskerrik asko

@totoro81791 11 жыл бұрын

Lol thanks. I actually got a personal message from Caroline Phillips telling me who the luthier was =)

@secretarykilkennychoir7137 3 ай бұрын

On your map, please distinguish the Republic of Ireland from the U.K. Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Great tone.

@chronoporter 13 жыл бұрын

Check out this Swiss metal band by the name of Eluveitie. They have a Hurdy-gurdy player!

@MsThatguywiththeface 10 жыл бұрын

Celtic is pronounced with a K sound, not an S sound. I know this because the root word is the Latin "Celtae," a corruption of the Greek "Keltoi."

@muddrudder2656 6 жыл бұрын

does she have a channel?

@piper2000ca 13 жыл бұрын

Generally I don't care much for the "Entertainment" part of TED, but that one was really cool, and informative.

@mrhearse777 5 жыл бұрын

When I was at school , our teachers were never this beautiful , or interesting!

@arifreeman 13 жыл бұрын

The Tromba Marina has a similar buzzing bridge.

@niceamigo9229 10 жыл бұрын

I have one in a pine box old type full working order. cant play it.

@jay81rd 13 жыл бұрын

Does it only play in C? Like anyone would know... ; )

@KawhackitaRag 11 жыл бұрын

Some people like the drones, some people hate the drones. Some people like the "dog" effect (buzz-saw sound), and some people (myself included) hate it. I have yet to meet someone who doesn't like the sound of a Hurdy-Gurdy with the drones and dog turned off, played by a real virtuoso, a sensitive musician. Then, it sounds closer to a viola or violin. I really liked this lady's performance, but even if you didn't like her, check out Matthias Loibner, who plays the instrument differently.

@RandoPandaSmiles 13 жыл бұрын

Shure SM58 FTW!

@serenity23ish 13 жыл бұрын

:) fab!

@Jonny---nm4lw 5 жыл бұрын

That is the most beautiful hurdy Gordy of seen

@PocusUK 13 жыл бұрын

@SobaniForce I know!! lol :)

@imogen4535 6 ай бұрын

My friends made fun of me for wanting to play this instrument but after really getting into cellar darling i think it sounds totally magical

@mushroom6097 5 ай бұрын

Ur friends sound like assholes

@miniaturelabyrinth7765 6 жыл бұрын

If i recall Sweden uses them in some old folk music.

@livinginthepast3 13 жыл бұрын

@xxxFaustusxxx Check out Reincarnatus here on youtube. Not so much metal, but sort of a progressive rock feel featuring gurdys, nyckelharpas, and an assortment of other period instruments...

@aandredaandred3378 3 жыл бұрын

2:16 Huh, what? UK, Spain, France, Italy? I'd argue hurdy-gurdy is a most prominent folk instrument in Hungary, Poland, Ukraine and Belarus. Also, hurdy-gurdy is not the only instrument with a buzzing bridge. Tromba marina features it as well.

@FitZhurdygurdy 10 ай бұрын

Central France and Galicia definitely have the most prolific gurdy traditions, Hungary and Ukraine are high on the list too tho.

@AbideinChristFully 6 жыл бұрын

Wow...the first synth keyboard.

@Stratophony 13 жыл бұрын

Eluveitie - Of Fire, Wind & Wisdom

@Krabadaque 7 жыл бұрын

She can play!

@Resegy Жыл бұрын

In italian Ghironda with hard "g" because "gh" is always hard in italian

@zarkoff45 13 жыл бұрын

Someone needs to invent the electric Hurdy-gurdy.

@Sarosun 13 жыл бұрын

nice 3 minute rolex stuff :)

@jackjackattack9137 9 жыл бұрын

My grandmother had one, RIP granny. I wish to get one myself, not to play. Still too painful, but to take to guitar center and tell them to restring and tune it ! I'd modify mine though, remove the crank and install pulley and hook to sewing machine motor. Turn it on before I go to work for my dog. Bet that would stop him from barking at night while I try to sleep !