I wonder how much effort it would really take for them to manufacture a playable instrument? It's one thing to cheap-out on materials and construction of the whole product but another thing to take the instrument 90% there and spoil it with a few items that can only be a fraction of the material and labour costs already put into it.
It's a matter of not understanding the instrument. It takes some serious knowledge and experience to design and make an instrument as complex as a hurdy gurdy. There are reasons guitars can be mass produced and hurdy gurdies cannot.
I ordered a Barok hurdy gurdy made by Mihaly Vrabel, one of the cheapest instrument maker I could find in Europe, I had some work on adjustments of keys and bridges, before to use it decently, but that is not a bad instrument. It has some lags in the varnish, and everything is a bit approximative , normal for a such price I would say.
How about that! Another hg player in Bellingham! And to think I thought I was the only one! Your assessment of the Chinese made hg is spot on, unplayable out of the box (though I agree the shape is kinda nice), it's going to need a lot of modification! But... it is a cut above Bob Mehess's Galloping Gurdies! XD
I just found this video after receiving my hg today, seems like mine and yours are from the same maker I have a tuning issue that it's really hard to move the pegs Do you think I should consider to return it? I bought this,because this one was the only choice I could afford And other hg is too expensive I managed to tune it somehow And it sounds ok to me I don't know,cause I have no experience, so I can't tell mine sounds good or bad
I think the consensus seems that the $800 you pay is not the end it costs a shit load more money or time to get it playing. In the end it is probably better to pay $1500 for the cheapest European model where you know it plays as it should when you unpack it.
So you bought an instrument, critiqued it on video... without playing it. Yeah, that sounds like an endeavor for someone wanting to "dislike". Just play the damn instrument. I race bikes - I once rode a crappy bike on a downhill run - I rode it - turned out it wasn't that THAT bad. My verdict: 3 stars (it was a Diamondback DB8 - it held up - but not nice like my bike). Your review = I want to dislike without playing. Okay - so this is not really a review, it is just a hate session?
I did my best to set it up and attempted to play it but it was not playable. I bought it with an open mind to see what it was like and since I've had good experience with some Chinese made guitars I hoped I could luck out and have an inexpensive instrument. I wanted it to be a decent instrument but it was not and sits disassembled until I have motivation to try to make improvements. The manufacturer of these instruments builds them based off of looking at photographs which gives them the idea of the form but not the inner functions and required geometry to make a playable instrument. I am not the only one to have similar experiences.
tbh, its not that impressive to be able to make it from photos. once you grasp the concept of whats going on its pretty simple. its just achieved through a complex mechanism. its not rocket surgery.
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thanks for sharing this. Looking forward to the follow up.
I wonder how much effort it would really take for them to manufacture a playable instrument? It's one thing to cheap-out on materials and construction of the whole product but another thing to take the instrument 90% there and spoil it with a few items that can only be a fraction of the material and labour costs already put into it.
It's a matter of not understanding the instrument. It takes some serious knowledge and experience to design and make an instrument as complex as a hurdy gurdy. There are reasons guitars can be mass produced and hurdy gurdies cannot.
I ordered a Barok hurdy gurdy made by Mihaly Vrabel, one of the cheapest instrument maker I could find in Europe, I had some work on adjustments of keys and bridges, before to use it decently, but that is not a bad instrument. It has some lags in the varnish, and everything is a bit approximative , normal for a such price I would say.
thanks for posting this and good luck with getting it setup...
How about that! Another hg player in Bellingham! And to think I thought I was the only one! Your assessment of the Chinese made hg is spot on, unplayable out of the box (though I agree the shape is kinda nice), it's going to need a lot of modification! But... it is a cut above Bob Mehess's Galloping Gurdies! XD
There are a handful of us here.
I just found this video after receiving my hg today, seems like mine and yours are from the same maker
I have a tuning issue that it's really hard to move the pegs
Do you think I should consider to return it?
I bought this,because this one was the only choice I could afford
And other hg is too expensive
I managed to tune it somehow
And it sounds ok to me
I don't know,cause I have no experience, so I can't tell mine sounds good or bad
I think the consensus seems that the $800 you pay is not the end it costs a shit load more money or time to get it playing. In the end it is probably better to pay $1500 for the cheapest European model where you know it plays as it should when you unpack it.
Try to get a nerdygurdy set
So you bought an instrument, critiqued it on video... without playing it. Yeah, that sounds like an endeavor for someone wanting to "dislike". Just play the damn instrument. I race bikes - I once rode a crappy bike on a downhill run - I rode it - turned out it wasn't that THAT bad. My verdict: 3 stars (it was a Diamondback DB8 - it held up - but not nice like my bike).
Your review = I want to dislike without playing. Okay - so this is not really a review, it is just a hate session?
I did my best to set it up and attempted to play it but it was not playable. I bought it with an open mind to see what it was like and since I've had good experience with some Chinese made guitars I hoped I could luck out and have an inexpensive instrument. I wanted it to be a decent instrument but it was not and sits disassembled until I have motivation to try to make improvements. The manufacturer of these instruments builds them based off of looking at photographs which gives them the idea of the form but not the inner functions and required geometry to make a playable instrument. I am not the only one to have similar experiences.
tbh, its not that impressive to be able to make it from photos. once you grasp the concept of whats going on its pretty simple. its just achieved through a complex mechanism. its not rocket surgery.
Did you even try it?
Yes.
@@ericvermeers A sound sample would have made this video.
@@ericvermeers And - a video?
This rubbish should not be sold, there ought go be a law to stop it
Yeah - and if you ride a bike that weighs more than 16 lbs - it should be banned too!!