Weird'n'Wacky Conventional / Home Made Musical Instruments!
Music
Anyone who plays the Hurdy Gurdy, Cigar Box Guitar, One String Tailors Dummy etc...
Movies
I Married a Teenage Hurdy Gurdy, Carry on Hurdy Gurdying, Tarzan: Lord of the Hurdy Gurdy's, Terminator 2: Rise of the Hurdy Gurdies, Gone with the Hurdy Gurdy, The Charge of the Hurdy Gurdy Brigade, Abbott and Costello meet the Hurdy Gurdy, The Day the Hurdy Gurdy Stood Still, When Hurdy Gurdies Collide, The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Hurdy Gurdy, The Hurdy Gurdies of Eastwick, The Six Wives of Henry the Hurdy Gurdy,
Television
Hurdy Gurdy's Flying Circus, The Gurdie's and the Beanstalk
Books
Keep the Hurdy Gurdy Flying, The Day of the Hurdy Gurdies, My Family and other Hurdy Gurdies, The Lion, the Witch and the Hurdy Gurdy, The Country Diary of an Edwardian Hurdy Gurdy
Heroes
Wilfred Makepeace Lunn, Gerard Hoffnung, Frederick Roland Emmett, William Heath Robinson, Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, Kt, CBE, FRS, RDI
The Blog will eventually chart progress in converting a common or garden classical guitar into a simple but effective Hurdy Gurdy.
It is hoped that the finished article will be usable enough to one day be played with the Morris Team, if only as a fun, post Dance entertainment!
As an acknowledgment, it should be noted that the project owes its original inspiration to the home-made instrument page of
Dennis Havlena Well worth a visit!!..
Also of note is the now defunct website of 'The Assymetrical Engineer' who refined some aspects of the $20 design.
The Off-World Workshop Youtube VLog...
The Latest Video added September 2008
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In addition to the Gurdy is a pictorial guide to turning an unplayable, cheap looking toy guitar into something with a touch of Old Time/Country Blues respectability!!
Who I'd like to meet: Antonio Stradivari, the Fiddle maker; "Start the kids on one today!"
Great stuff, thanx for the add. ;-) I've made the odd instrument myself. Check out my "Tower of Power" Tower of Power It's a Newel post fitted wirh guitar parts and is played by bowing with a hacksaw. creates an aewsome sound. It's the lead grinding sound on the song 'Sing Hazana' on my page.
It's all lookin' rather lovely... Can't wait for the next installment. Nice genteel decapitation - I have only seen guitars wrapped round speakers / under buses / bounced on by a morris dancer.
HOWDY-DOODLEY-DO-COCK-A-DOODLE LET'S WAKE THE DEAD...
Welcome to the Thingumajigs' virtual sphere of friendship and thanks for the add. We're glad you appreciate our music. Please try to come and join us at one of our gigs where we will deliver a delightful gallimaufry of ditties, melodies and serenades for your aural pleasure.
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