I wanna make the best Gurdies :o)

I'm conflicted about it because, on the one hand, we need more people who make gurdies. So, more manufacturers is always a good thing. But on the other hand, you don't want a low-quality sounding instrument and the first couple instruments of a new manufacturer are probably not going to sound the best they could ever be since they are a new manufacturer. But the manufacturer also needs to make money so that they can keep making instruments. So they need to sell gurdies to make the money or they need to already be rich and accept not making money for a couple of years and have dozens or hundreds of not-so-good-sounding gurdies lying around.

Very interesting. I'd have expected much worse.

They will eventually make em with all of their hearts

Wait what? Are the actually trying to get better or did you get the one in a million that isn't total rubbish?

I have 3 years old version and at leat one key gets stuck :( But when I lost houn, mr Radoslav sent me new one for free, hehe.

Good, thanks, but all your example melodies were in minor modes. What if you want to play a song that's in a major mode? Are there tunings that support all the common modes?

Your videos have been (and will continue) to be a great help. I've got an order in with Claire dugue, but her waiting list is 4½ years, so to stop me getting too impatient.... I've just managed to get an order in for a nerdy gurdy kit. I decided the kit as well as being the cheaper option, I'd gain a much better understanding of a gurdy by building one. Can't wait.

Is the image flipped, or is it left handed?

What kind of strings can you use for sympathetic / resonance strings?

How would you use 99% alcohol to remove rosin from a wheel. I want to try liquid rosin since I have a synthetic wheel rather than a wooden wheel

Joli son malgré sa petite taille !

Lost art of our past it is so beautiful…and so ingenious designed for being a medieval instrument! Needs to be never forgotten again!

So when you are doing disassociation you are making a coup every note played on left hand. Correct?

As soon as I can , I am buying you a coffee ! mines ready , back to tunning , thank yiou !

and I love the music you play ! :o) thanks again brother

Thanks again :o) Excelent video ! My Gurdies are almost dancing yet !! soon soon

I think this video just gave me the solution to what was going on , thank you once again , I think I am going to enjoy a lot of time here , :o) Making my uncles hurdy Gurdies number one is my main reason for living :o) Merci mon frere

Awesome !!! Thank you for your video and good explanation ! I just recieved three Hurdy Gurdys to service :o) Loving life !

Wow your really talented that sounds amazing

It sounds vaguely Middle Eastern but I think the idea came from the French. Even the Basic sounds pretty cool....

A friend of mine is selling one, i might have to buy it! It has a beautiful case too.

You know this is gonna be good when the first lesson is how to hold the crank.

es pot tocar d'empeus?

Hi, very nice video and very well playing. I am happy to watch this because I am building one of Japp's kits for a friend in Sweden. It was a bit of a chance to take, not knowing the quality of the finished instrument, but this ensures me that I can do it. I am building one of his Nyckel-harps too but the Nerdy Gurdy has to come first as we are invited to midsummer party and I want to bring the new instrument if I can finish it in time. I live in Denmark. I agree with you about the extreme good quality of the kit parts. Cheers, JohnnyH-DK

Hi, thanks for the video. I was considering getting a Workshop Medieval gurdy, but am now doing some research and checking out other options before making a decision. Have you got any thoughts about their latest "saga" model? The quality seems to have gone up in the past few years so it would be interesting too hear your thoughts as to whether they are still not a recommended builder.

Is it possible to super-saturate the liquid rosin? (ie. dissolve more rosin into the alcohol than it can normally hold.) I had read that a hot water bath would speed up the dissolve. So I added my pulverized rosin and the alcohol into a bottle, then put the bottle in a pan of hot water. It worked great, and it was all dissolved very quickly. But, after letting it cool down to room temperature, there was undissolved rosin at the bottom of the bottle and it clogged up the pipette. I heated it up again, and again, it went into a beautiful liquid. But cooled down, not so beautiful. Think I need to thin out my mixture!

my catnip is finally here and i wanted to watch the coup video first but i'm so glad i chose this one because my posture was so wrong

Mine is finally done, going in the mail tomorrow. Im so exited to finally have my own real hurdy gurdy

It's unfortunate that these instruments are so expensive, but I think a silver lining of that at least for me, was that it took a long time for me to decide that I want one and to commit to getting one, a lot of money was on the line so I felt like I had to do as much research as I possibly could to find a good instrument, and I did. For a little while I thought that I would get an altarwind but I put in the research and discovered that they are not worth the money. This isn't meant to be judgmental to anyone else for how they live their life or how they think, but for how much these instruments cost, it's strange to me that anyone would spend little enough time looking into them and put in little enough research that they would ever get to duped into buying a poorly made instrument like this one. Maybe a lot of people buying them it just have a lot of spare disposable money on hand, so it's not as big of a deal to them and they spend less time and thought on deciding what they want, but I think it's pretty likely that most people buying hurdy gurdies, whether they settle for something like this or get a real instrument that doesn't even cost that much more money, or could even be cheaper, are regular people who are needing to spend quite a big chunk of money on it and they need to save up and it's a big commitment for them

I live only 15km away from this museum, and only a few months ago I realized that this exhibition even exists. During the visit, I played a bit on that "try me" gurdy, and a decision was made that day: I had to get such an instrument for myself. I ordered a Nerdy Gurdy, and it's been 4 months since I started playing on it. I'm not a musician so it will take me some time to learn, but this is perhaps one of the most enjoyable hobbies I ever picked up. Most of the text on the wall is referring to gurdies from Eastern Europe (Ukraine, eastern parts of Poland, but not only) from the 19th century. Back then this instrument was an attribute of a wandering bard, usually blind, who could see the future and who would tell stories (or sing) about dark events that await us, while playing dreadful tunes on his gurdy. Such wandering bards were beggars, yet they were held in high respect in villages and the countryside. Many of those paintings are portraying them in similar manner - wind in their hair, unsettling and mystic atmosphere, worried people listening to them. Quite fascinating. If anyone needs translation of those wall texts, I can do that here in the comments. Cheers

This is beautiful!

Los años siguen pasando y sigo sin zanfona. Tengo que reconocer que nunca daré el paso de lanzarme a por una Saphona pero la Trigo o la Aplo sí son opciones más realistas para mí. Cual crees que es mejor opción para empezar y que no se quedará "pequeña" a corto plazo? Saludos!!!!

Piotr looks so professionelle with his Workwear☺️

Wow! This is amazing. I have never seen any setup like this here in the USA.

whats the music name plz

Thanks for the great insight, Sergio! I received my Saphona this year and it was great working with Michalina, Piotr and their team. Too bad Sara wasn't there. I had a lot of correspondence with her. She does a great job. 🥰

Cant wait to get my Saphona. Thanks Sergio, and the team at the MM workshop for the tour.

Really cool to see where my Aplo came from! It's currently being used frequently here to the North of the arctic circle:)

So cool! Thank you so much Sergio! I am the happy owner of a trigo HG, and I am so glad that you took us to tour the MM shop! Now I know more precisely how it was made 😊❤

This was so cool to see, I knew gurdy is complicated but it's so cool to see the intricate process and management! My dream is to afford one of these one day❤

Wow! Loved the video and being able to view the creative process and those that make the magic happen! ❤ I can’t wait to see my custom electric gurdy in a few months!! Thanks so much for making this video, Sergio, and thanks for allowing us to see the shop, Michalina!!! We appreciate your time and effort!!!

Thank you very much for the tour of the M M workshop. Loved it.

Thank you very much for that Insights!

Thank you so much for visiting, Sergio! We had a blast showing you around the workshop. 🤗🔥

Looks like a serious operation! Great video, interesting stuff

So awesome to see where my Aplo was born. Thank you for the video!

Very cool!

those electric ones are tempting...