Very nice built. Not lot's of Linonettes yet to hear on youtube.

Great video! i built mine a few months ago but I'm having a hard time tuning it as it is my first ever instrument. I feel like your video will help me a lot, especially the end. Thanks!

@songhetang2961

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for the nice feedback. All the best with setting yours up. I had to focus pretty hard for a few sessions to get mine playable and am still making the odd adjustment as I go. It definitely helps to watch plenty of videos of working instruments up close and indeed, I didn’t see many videos of Linottes, making it hard to know whst to expect. There’s also plenty of help over at the nerdy gurdy builders group on Facebook. Best wishes!

Bought one, it's on the way. Thank you for posting!

First one that sounds so good. Most dont

@songhetang2961

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Sean. That means a lot to me, and definitely testimony to it being a great kit and great design. I’ve installed Jaap’s capo on the trumpettes now and I’m slowly improving my coup technique, learning how rosin effects the tone and building a second Linotte in D tuning with a flight sounddeck pickup and transducer. Will make a comparison video when done! Are you a hurdy gurdy pkayer? Or thinking about it?

WONDERFUL job! Thanks so much for making this video!

Yeeah, it turned out very well!

thats one impressive instrument paul.

good job!👍

Well played!

Pretty good for having only played it for a month. Other instrument experience?

@songhetang2961

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! Piano, violin, guitar, whistles, ocarinas, drums, anything that makes music. Jack of all trades, master of none! The piano experience has been a big help. Pianists might sound even more awesome if the instrument was left hand cranked.

@Lucius_Chiaraviglio

6 ай бұрын

@@songhetang2961 I was thinking about that, but then -- unless you ran the driveshaft from the left end of the instrument to a wheel most of the way to the right -- the keys for the high notes would be on the left and the keys for the low notes would be on the left, which might throw some people off.

@songhetang2961

6 ай бұрын

That’s indeed the spanner in the works, and probably explains the conventions. Even though I would sound 100x better playing with my right hand, i definitely would not want to play the notes backwards, though I did learn to do that with my left hand, as this happens when trading piano for guitar / violin. The nice thing with the latter is that fingers 1 and 2 are the strong ones, whereas with gurdy / piano, they are the weak ones.

@flamingomtn

6 ай бұрын

@@songhetang2961 That's what I always tell people who want to order a left-handed kit. I feel like the instrument is already left-handed.

Where do I find this instrument? From where I search this ? How could I get this instrument? It's so beautiful warm sound ❤ In our country we don't get this types of instrument Love from Indian

@songhetang2961

4 ай бұрын

Search for ‘Nerdy Gurdy Linotte’. Glad you enjoy the sound 😊. Hope you can build one and enjoy yourself. India has worlds and worlds of music of great beauty! I believe many Indian melodies will sound good on on the Hurdy Gurdy….. like this one…. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ioF9qtmilbqYYLQ.htmlsi=B1vbYPoGftGRZVB9 All the best from U.K.!

@Srtw163

Ай бұрын

I really appreciate thanks a lots🤝

@Srtw163

Ай бұрын

Nerdy Gurdy linotte?? Is Instagram ID?? Website??

@songhetang2961

Ай бұрын

@@Srtw163 , you can find them here. www.nerdygurdy.nl They release 5-10 units per week on Sunday evening at 2030 hrs local time (Netherlands). Best wishes

Beautiful color. Can you tell me what stain you used?

@songhetang2961

4 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊 I used a furniture stain test kit, (‘furniture clinic’) then a coat of wax. Ten bucks for ten colours in little test pots. One 25 ml pot more than enough for each shade

@the_Hermanoid

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the reply. One more query: The third song you play is obviously Thunderstruck. What are the first two?

@songhetang2961

4 ай бұрын

I learnt the first two by ear and so don’t really know their names. A bit embarrassing! I am awful at remembering song names, but I always remember melodies! The first is an ‘An Dro’ I heard on ‘elektrovolt’s’ KZread channel and I only know the second as ‘prelude’ (I know it from doing rhythm guitar accompaniment for it a few years back at a Ceilidh…..I actually have a written score for it from the band but it only says ‘prelude’! …..there is a video of this on my channel). Best wishes!

@andrewm3529

3 ай бұрын

@@songhetang2961 Any chance you can share the score for prelude?

@songhetang2961

3 ай бұрын

Are you on the hurdy gurdy community page or the nerdy gurdy builders page? It’s on a scrap of paper so I can post a picture there…

How long was the process from build to first playable note?

@songhetang2961

4 ай бұрын

I built it over 4 weekends when off the day job. Spent much time thinking about it before acting. There are lots of steps where waiting half a day / a day for glue to cure necessary. It was another 2 weekends to establish optimal playing conditions. I build scientific instruments for a living and have played musical instruments my whole life, so that will have helped 🙂

@RedTideRTS

4 ай бұрын

@@songhetang2961 thanks for the response. Great video!

How low can it be tuned?

@songhetang2961

5 ай бұрын

The lowest chanter is G3 and the lowest Borden is G2. If you wanted lower than that, I’m not sure - you can probably drop by a note or two, but there’s then adjustments to make to ensure the strings run against the wheel with the right pressure. It’s pretty well engineered to work as it says on the tin. The clearance of the chanter (melody) strings and the key tangents is tight but precise. Lower notes / looser strings might buzz against the tangents. This means that a heavier string / higher tension might work, but one would need to experiment.

@WolfieboyMachi

5 ай бұрын

@@songhetang2961 Thanks for the reply (and sorry for being late, only saw it just now) I appreciate it. I by far prefer the lower tuned gurdies, but even so, I've decided that I like even the standard NG sound enough that I wanna build one.