What a fun invention. I imagine you could sell these for fairly cheap and people could easily turn their ukuleles into a completely different instrument and back again as they wanted. Very fun idea.
Is she diesel ? That is damned impressive 👏. People like you make the internet what it was intended to be. A tool for opening up the minds of others and share ideas. It sounds great 👍. Well done. I saw another fella with a fishing reel with a plectrum on it mounted to his guitar. The turning gave near perfect mandolin effect. But your idea is simpler and sounds rustic and beautiful.
''people like you make the internet what it was intended to be'' this may be the hardest compliment i have ever witnessed, both in person and over the internet, and i agree with it wholeheartedly
another reason to love wheels. took me awhile to appreciate those funny small ukes. i now keep several in standard or other tunings and string sizes, and once assembled a Ugear hurdy gurdy kit. gave it to my granddaughter... it employed a hidden flywheel in the body that added flow and control to it. glad i clicked here. i've made several strangeish insts but you got your build very well done. fun.
Surely this could be done with a belt between two wheels. Like a tank tread. That way it would be flat against the flat strings. Could fit a guitar, but not have to be so tall
This is genius. Maybe the strings aren't exactly flat though, because the pressure required to play different strings, at different volumes, is variable. Maybe in the way that a bridge is tilted to compensate for thickness, the belt plate would be slanted, or even comb shaped for quicker actuation and better volume
That is awesome. Totally gives off early music vibes and achieves its aim of sounding like a uke hurdy gurdy hybrid. Think it would sound great in an open tuning playing a melody against drone notes, or installed on a multi course uke. The possibilities are endless. Well done on this superb innovative invention.
This is great. I love when RUclips suggests a video I would have liked to watch 7 years ago😅 I would like to see this on a mountain dulcimer, I think it would work well with the drone strings
Ha!....A wonderful re-invention! Very cool!......saw a person playing an authentic Hurdy Gurdy,.....and they sometimes spin the drone wheel, back and forth, to create a rhythm. Moving it forward and back.
This is an entirely new world to me, so I really don't know how big or small this particular innovation was... But seeing where the 'fron2' came from, nearly a decade later, is incredibly fun to say the least
Yes, I make them myself in my workshop, and I can make one for you and ship it to you in the US. Email me. Please watch the video to the very end, and you will see my email address is there. Sorry for the late reply.
Is there a festival where all of you guys with your amazing instruments meet and jam together which I can visit also? Would be a dream come true in this life time ❤
I can make one for you. Email me. Please watch the video to the very end, and you will see my email address is there. I don't sell them in stores. Thanks!
Wondering what kind of wear on the strings there is with the wheel (rubbing?), on them. Not criticizing by any means. I'm a guitar player and I'm pretty sure my strings wouldn't last long like that.
Это не новое изобретение. У славян был музыкальный инструмент, который назывался гудок... Один в один, только струн побольше, а система звукоизвлечения такая же
How is the circular bow, contacting the flat aligned strings? Ever thought of a flat track, like a bulldozer tracks configuration? It's a cool device, by the way, you have their!
So a few days ago (before discovering this video ! ) I ordered a uke to try this on. I got a six string and I'm going to try two or three wheels with very clever thumb triggers on the first handle to selectively engage the others. Then ten foot pedals for a handpan drum with air valves to cossotto reed boxes ... and harmonica.
neat soul...clearly a superior imagination...clearly superior handyman abilities...clearly only just winning the struggle with an innate reserve...you must be from Canadia!
That’s so cool! I love my ukuleles and I often add things like servo motors for experiments on them. What material is the wheel? It’s so shiny!! You’d probably get a slightly better sound on a curved body but that’s a few iterations away
As a cellist, not necessarily. It could have the opposite affect. The "bow" if too close to the squishy middle of the string could deaden the sound, especially because it isn't a bow but a rigid wheel. Putting it nearer the bridge allows for more volume and nasaly hurry gurdy type sound too
Thats pretty cool...Ive been thinking about making a hurdy-gurdy or years. Then I see this. The wheels are spinning again. Thanks or sharing....I think.LOL
What an interesting instrument, it's weird mix of a instrument made for medieval modal music, and a instrument for western polyphonic music. I can see the instrument having a niche for people playing modal music.
Sir Believe it or not I had the Same idea as You but rather with a Guitar an Was Wondering how it would sound an even Though That's a Ukalaly you've Given Me a Great ldea of how it Would Have Sounded , Thank You for Sharing that for now I Know ! 🇺🇸👍🏻👍🏻
Nice. Have you ever seen a Gizmotron? They were available in the late '70s, and were designed for electric bass, mounted just above the bridge. Consisting of 4 small toothed rubber wheels attached to a small electric motor, keys over each wheel when pressed set the wheels spinning and lowered them against the string for an arco-like effect, singly or for any combination of the 4 for chords. I think a guy from the pop group 10 cc invented it. Remarkable little device, they are very rare and pricey if you can find one
that's sick, he turned an ukulele into a hurdygurdy. it's got such a cool sound
I used to hate the ukulele. Now I kind of like it.
Big same @@jmachatch6696
Just curious what you hated about it did you also hate guitars and other string ed instruments?@@jmachatch6696
@@jmachatch6696it's no longer an ukulele, its a hurdelele
That’s what it reminded me of
Straight from medieval Hawaii: The ukelurdygurdy
This is the perfect name for it
And the other one is the Guitardygurdy.
hurdelele.. nah I like yours better lol
“When the ukelurdygurdy’s done, when the battles lost and won …”
- William Shakespeare, “The Hawaiish Play”.
I think I just appreciate the joy of this man enjoying his toys.
He made it into a new instrument with a toy, yes. @mrranto5789
@mrranto5789 Give me a break. it’s a figure of speech
@mrranto5789what is a toy, except and instrument of joy
Thank you, Skootfairy! I agree, I am very much enjoying my toys! I'm happy you noticed.
@mrranto5789 It's an instrument AND a toy.
What a fun invention. I imagine you could sell these for fairly cheap and people could easily turn their ukuleles into a completely different instrument and back again as they wanted. Very fun idea.
you'd have to modify the uke bridge and saddle for the radius of the curve on the wheel. A fair amount to make it work. hard to sell as an attachment.
Found this video absolutelly accidentally. Very interesting sound. I like the hurdy gurdy, but what you have is something new and incredible.
Really? I intuitively found it through it’s title
thank you youtube, for reccomending this to 15k people 6 years after the videos release
Should have been more.
@@johnsayles4316You're a happy soul.
@@simoncardie9371
Yes.
I try to make everyone else happy, too.
Try 8 years
Is she diesel ?
That is damned impressive 👏.
People like you make the internet what it was intended to be.
A tool for opening up the minds of others and share ideas.
It sounds great 👍. Well done.
I saw another fella with a fishing reel with a plectrum on it mounted to his guitar. The turning gave near perfect mandolin effect.
But your idea is simpler and sounds rustic and beautiful.
''people like you make the internet what it was intended to be''
this may be the hardest compliment i have ever witnessed, both in person and over the internet, and i agree with it wholeheartedly
another reason to love wheels. took me awhile to appreciate those funny small ukes. i now keep several in standard or other tunings and string sizes, and once assembled a Ugear hurdy gurdy kit. gave it to my granddaughter... it employed a hidden flywheel in the body that added flow and control to it.
glad i clicked here. i've made several strangeish insts but you got your build very well done. fun.
you're one cool grandpa for making instruments and giving them to your family. that is a beautiful thing. i hope you are well.
This is a fantastic invention. Great work Fron!
The Hurdy Gurdy has been around for a few hundred years. He didn’t invent anything here.
Surely this could be done with a belt between two wheels. Like a tank tread. That way it would be flat against the flat strings. Could fit a guitar, but not have to be so tall
This is genius. Maybe the strings aren't exactly flat though, because the pressure required to play different strings, at different volumes, is variable.
Maybe in the way that a bridge is tilted to compensate for thickness, the belt plate would be slanted, or even comb shaped for quicker actuation and better volume
Read my mind
Use stepper motors to mimic the movement of a bow?
That sounds a lot more complex, to be frank.
Once you start making things, you get an idea of what is easy and what is hard.
@@hellomate639it’s just one extra wheel
That is awesome. Totally gives off early music vibes and achieves its aim of sounding like a uke hurdy gurdy hybrid.
Think it would sound great in an open tuning playing a melody against drone notes, or installed on a multi course uke. The possibilities are endless.
Well done on this superb innovative invention.
This is great. I love when RUclips suggests a video I would have liked to watch 7 years ago😅 I would like to see this on a mountain dulcimer, I think it would work well with the drone strings
Same. My only disappointment in this whole experience is that this video wasn't recommended to me before now. I guess better late than never.
use a dremel
Sounds like a heavenly accordion! Love your videos!
Ha!....A wonderful re-invention! Very cool!......saw a person playing an authentic Hurdy Gurdy,.....and they sometimes spin the drone wheel, back and forth, to create a rhythm. Moving it forward and back.
You can do that with this.
Just amazing! I'm going to attempt a build, I never thought I'd be able to own anything close to a hurdygurdy, very excited
This is an entirely new world to me, so I really don't know how big or small this particular innovation was... But seeing where the 'fron2' came from, nearly a decade later, is incredibly fun to say the least
Do you sell the product?
This is wonderful! Keep up the good work!
Bery, bery Nice, and it is a fine musical instrument congratulations millions of congratulations.
For me it is a celestial music.
Браво! Отлично придумано!
man's out here living his best life... 🙏❤
This is fascinating, I wonder if I could do something similar with my guitalele!
I was thinking the same thing.
You are who I aim to be. Much love and respect. 🙏🏻
Hello, would it be possible to have the manufacturing plans for this hurdy-gurdy to adapt ukulele?
Thank you. I agree, that's exactly what I am doing.
That's the answer to play chords on a string instrument without strumming! Wonderful!
Thank you very much Mr. ParalellUniverse's Thom Yorke.
Sub #400 & glad you popped up onto my feed - 7 years down the track…which is odd …but, what a delight. God bless.
I misread that like he pooped onto your feet, lol
I got married two months after this video was uploaded, oh man I’m getting old
It’s a hurdy-guiturdy!! 😂
How do i go about ordering one? Do you manufacture them? I live in the US.
Yes, I make them myself in my workshop, and I can make one for you and ship it to you in the US. Email me. Please watch the video to the very end, and you will see my email address is there. Sorry for the late reply.
It sounds like a Lira da Gamba
It does indeed!
Did you a concave the bridge to create an even surface area for the wheel?
How do I get in touch with you. I believe I want one!
I can arrange that for you. if you wish.
Is there a festival where all of you guys with your amazing instruments meet and jam together which I can visit also? Would be a dream come true in this life time ❤
where can you buy one of these
Génial instrument ! Bravohh ! Et chapeau pour l’exercice de dissociation !
Greetings from Cambridge! Cool invention!
oh. OH! this is brilliant! I play hurdygurdy and uke! What an interesting idea.....
Drop the link to where we can buy one!
I can make one for you. Email me. Please watch the video to the very end, and you will see my email address is there. I don't sell them in stores. Thanks!
Tight on Fron! Thats a cool instrument!
What’s the grit looking like on the wheel and can u do a close up
Wow! I love this instrument !!! Bravo!
So cool, this resly sounds like the háromhúros brácsa we have in hungarian folk music!
Incredible sound, especially considering it’s acoustic! What material did you use for the wheel, and does it take rosin to use?
Impressive sounds. Are you using leather impregnated with rosin on your wheel, or another magic solution?
RUclips random vid suggestion ftw. Nice.
I live you Man. ❤
This is sooo nice!!! Also, I think you played a bit the "Music for the funeral of Queen Mary" by Purcell in the beginning. :D
what a great guy
It sounds like a organ a little easier to carry lol
What you might not have noticed is that this was recorded in Middle Earth's Shire and he's Gandalf brother 😂
This is soooo good I’m now mega inspired! Thankyou Fron
Where to get pne of them
Это в какой больнице снимали?
I love these kind of ideas. Try everything and see what works!
It looks like a ukulele,
Plays like a hurdy-gurdy,
Sounds like a bowed dulcimer.
Wondering what kind of wear on the strings there is with the wheel (rubbing?), on them. Not criticizing by any means. I'm a guitar player and I'm pretty sure my strings wouldn't last long like that.
As with hurdy-gurdies, there is cotton on the strings which softens the sound and prevents wear.
Это не новое изобретение. У славян был музыкальный инструмент, который назывался гудок... Один в один, только струн побольше, а система звукоизвлечения такая же
It's not the same.
so how did you alter the tuning? Its normally DGBE for Baritone Ukuleles what did you change it to?
How is the circular bow, contacting the flat aligned strings? Ever thought of a flat track, like a bulldozer tracks configuration? It's a cool device, by the way, you have their!
So you sell these?
So a few days ago (before discovering this video ! ) I ordered a uke to try this on. I got a six string and I'm going to try two or three wheels with very clever thumb triggers on the first handle to selectively engage the others. Then ten foot pedals for a handpan drum with air valves to cossotto reed boxes ... and harmonica.
Did you machine the wheel yourself? If not, where‘d you get it?
I made it.
neat soul...clearly a superior imagination...clearly superior handyman abilities...clearly only just winning the struggle with an innate reserve...you must be from Canadia!
That guy is awesome when are those 2 going on tour I want the first ticket
Good & very nice invention , I hope one day we will see a good player for this new invented instrument .
Very charming instrument addition, indeed.
he reinvented the bow
So cool! Thanks for sharing!
Incredible wowwww I love it oh my!
sounds like autumn's tradition
Cool man.... Sometimes I get crazy ideas too when I play my uke... ❤
That’s so cool! I love my ukuleles and I often add things like servo motors for experiments on them. What material is the wheel? It’s so shiny!!
You’d probably get a slightly better sound on a curved body but that’s a few iterations away
The contact place on the strings must be closer to the open hole for a better sound
As a cellist, not necessarily. It could have the opposite affect. The "bow" if too close to the squishy middle of the string could deaden the sound, especially because it isn't a bow but a rigid wheel. Putting it nearer the bridge allows for more volume and nasaly hurry gurdy type sound too
With nylon? Absolutely not! Maybe for plucking…
Thats pretty cool...Ive been thinking about making a hurdy-gurdy or years. Then I see this. The wheels are spinning again. Thanks or sharing....I think.LOL
Sounds like the friction wheel needs to go further down to somewhere over the sound hole, hopefully a less scratchy sound.
what size wheel is this?
There' a Pidgeon stuck to your head in the thumbnail.
What an interesting instrument, it's weird mix of a instrument made for medieval modal music, and a instrument for western polyphonic music. I can see the instrument having a niche for people playing modal music.
This is the best thing I have ever seen.
Do you make an electric?
Do you sell custom made pieces
Can't wait to hear it on some records.
Jimmy Page: "Hold my Beer"
no jimmy, strum with the bow and use the beer bottle as a slide
more like hold my fifth of jack daniels
Great idea to do that on guitar 👍😀.
In France we have " Vielle a roue" similar instrument
Great job
I'm giving this video a Thumbs Up if for no other reason than it's from a Fellow Canadian ! :)
I IMDB'd Kevin Spacey and can't find what movie this is from??🙃
Wholesome Kevin Spacey playing tunes
How does it make the different sounds depending on which note is pressed on the fret? And which notes is it making?
Very Cool !
Если говорить серьезно, то здесь решен один из недостатков щипковых, это длительность нот.
Do you sell these?
Yes, I do. Please email me for more information. My email address is clearly displayed in the last few frames of the video. Thanks!
Sir Believe it or not I had the Same idea as You but rather with a Guitar an Was Wondering how it would sound an even Though That's a Ukalaly you've Given Me a Great ldea of how it Would Have Sounded , Thank You for Sharing that for now I Know ! 🇺🇸👍🏻👍🏻
That’s awesome 👏 keep up the inventions
This is awesome!
Nice.
Have you ever seen a Gizmotron?
They were available in the late '70s, and were designed for electric bass, mounted just above the bridge.
Consisting of 4 small toothed rubber wheels attached to a small electric motor, keys over each wheel when pressed set the wheels spinning and lowered them against the string for an arco-like effect, singly or for any combination of the 4 for chords.
I think a guy from the pop group 10 cc invented it.
Remarkable little device, they are very rare and pricey if you can find one
it's cool that youtube just recommended this to me
More of this !!!!! Please
Incredible work 👏🏽
This is so awesome! I wish these where on sale, I love the sound of the Hurdy Gurdy but they are too expensive!