My Homemade Hurdy Gurdy For Under $100
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- How I made my Groddalira style hurdy gurdy for under $100. Spruce top, maple sides, birch ply wheel, rock maple keys and pegs, by Terry Bell, Bell Banjos. Played in The Bell Family music group, and Waking Dragon
>$100 in materials... PRICELESS amounts of labor and knowledge. I bow down to your expertise
Don't forget the tools!!
"> x" means more than x, not less
I'm sure the gurdy doesn't cost much in materials. It's mostly wood and a few metal parts. The real price is the expertise that goes into building one.
VERY complicated engineering and assembly.
EXACTLY. someone asked me how i figured $600 in labor was my estimate. lol. i probably even went to low!
@@TopofTheHill3D Yeah I'd say you're low. I'd give you the hundred bucks in materials and 600 to build me a damn hurdy gurdy If you can bust it out as good as that one and I am the stingiest person I know
@@Stickerz- agreed
Even a simple thing like building the wheel takes a lot of talent to get it right.
Oh my, I'm supper happy to see folks able to make a hurdy gurdy within a more accessible price. Absolutely beautiful sound, and great work!
It is not the materials that make this instrument costly, it is the skill, patience, commitment, and hands that few posses these days. Very well done and deserves great appreciation, The Lord bless you!
I always come back to this. One of the best builds I've seen on RUclips, amazing work.
The workmanship on your hurdy gurdy shows you to be a mastercraftsman. I am in awe of your skills good sir.
I'm so glad Steve Bannon finally got a hobby.
(sorry, I couldn't resist)
I've been planning on building an HG and have looked at a lot of DIY videos. Your instrument has the best sound of all the home mades I've heard. Bravo.
Wow, that is a really clean sound. How come some instruments have a really, really rustic and dirty sound while playing, and others - like yours - has a perfectly clean sound? Does it primarily have to do with the keys and how they are constructed?
I think it's the difference between metal, nylon, or gut strings.
@@wakingdragon9085 But some of the gut stringed instruments are the most clean sounding of them all, much cleaner sounding than metal and nylon for example. Just look at Tobie Miller and her gut strung baroque hurdy gurdy :)
@@wakingdragon9085 Make me one!!!!!
Could just be a difference in recording quality
@@michaelcaplin8969 It's has little to do with the string type, and everything to do with 1) correct string pressure on the wheel 2) correct cottoning of the strings & rosining of the wheel 3) The wheel being perfectly true 4) The keys & tangents being correctly built
gorgeous piece of craftsmanship!!
Absolutely gorgeous and it sounds great. I'm building my second gurdy and cannot even fathom that you could build something like this for under $100, unless you have the world's largest scrap wood pile. LOL Kudos to you for making such a professional instrument.
You know how easy it is to get old furniture? There's probably your answer.
Sounds like a bagpiper being viciously attacked by a swarm of bees.
I'm very impressed by the bends you were able to pull off
A beautiful feat of engineering. Congratulations
Well done, well worth all the work it took to make, you join a thousand year old tradition of the Hurdy Gurdy!
artist and talented craftsman. All my admiration sir
Thats absolutely wonderful.
You are a real artist !!! Congratulations !!!
That’s so awesome! Nice work.
Thats actually a well composed video! Good job! And on building such a lovely instrument too!
Brilliant! Beautiful instrument and playing!
Beautiful work, Sir and a fun song to demonstrate the beastie!
That's impressive, great job!
Incredible workmanship and sound, this instrument I would pay at least 800 for, but the amount of work would make it a multiple of that.
Well done!! Great sound! May you enjoy many hours of playing. Good job once again 👍👍👏👏👏👏👍👍
Dude just casually makes a fucking Hurdy Gurdy. What a legend.
Very nice sound indeed! Well done!
Wow, beautiful instrument and great playin! 🤙
Something spooky about it. Like time travel.
The constant drone sound reminds me of a didgeridoo in a sense.
you're a freaking genius!
WOW! Beautiful in appearance and beautiful sound! Love it ...
great sound and the instrument looks beautiful
Oh please, what song was that?
Every song played on a hurdy gurdy sounds so haunting... I can't get enough!
What a beautiful instrument - visually and aurally
Out standing!
Wow, beautiful sound
Absolutely brilliant! And so different from anything else!
It's a gorgeous instrument and hearing it, it sounds wonderful for being only 100 in material cost
It looks amazing too
That is superb!!!! Amazing!!! Thanks for sharing and congratulations!! Now I just have to make or get one of those to be completely happy!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
you have done an excellet job well done
I NEED a hurdy gurdy. Dpnt know anything about them, but thinking about building my own!
pretty damn good at playing it too!!
Since Hurdy Gurdy is such a specific and unique design without really any related instrument before it, it has to have been an invention of a single individual.
Look up ORGANISTRUM.
The keys are like those of a nyckelharpa. Both instruments have keys that are essentially mechanisations of what the fingers do on bowed lyres. If a violinist's bow runs out of hairs, rosin on the wood of the bow will still produce a sound and using a wheel instead is an obvious step to take.
Extraordinary!
Sounds AMAZING!! How did you learn how to build one? I'd love one but could never afford the prices
Would you sell the building plans for this beauty?? I have some skills on the building/woodcrafting side... but design/plan making is beyond me...
Beautiful work and lovely sound!!!
I'd gladly pay 200 for a building kit for one of these!
A kit for one like this would easily be $1500. They are VERY complicated. And there aren't kits for high quality gurdies due to the complicated assembly. Just as there aren't "Piano kits."
@@bluematter3962 I know Hurdy Gurdies are expensive. I was just commenting about the price the man said he made it under in the title. You don't need to be so arrogant.
Best one I’ve ever heard
I will now watch your career with great intent
I glad to hear you can build a good quality Hurdy gurdy for under $100 I've seen kits going for. $999 which is ridiculously price for the parts in a kit. The kits are nice! but no way does the pieces and parts cost that much to acquire. I wish their would go for a $100 or $200
I have no words... WOW! I dream of having such knowledge!!
you have at least ELEVEN words ................. i counted
Wow! I've got to find plans to make one :)
The Hurty Gerty man.😊
The big cost is the tools and knowledge in building most small scale things.
Amazing. If you have plans, I would gladly pay 50 bucks for them.
unbelivable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Masterpiece
That's beautiful man
$100 in material, $5,000 in time and expertise
Дякую величезне! Це перше відео де докладно видно як влаштована колісна ліра всередині.
Nice work on every level.
Okay, now I need the plans.:)
I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hurdy gurdy today!
amazing.. I have just put a deposit down on one. I am looking forward to it. it's a 2-2-2. can't wait..
Me encanta este sonido, me traslada a la Edad Media.
Thanks for sharing this video. Your instrument sounds very good. It looks similar but not identical to the one by Wilfrid Ulrich. Which is based on the MI74 from the Germaniches Nationalmusem Nürnberg.
wow, like it
Cool.
Nice!
Wow! Wow wow wow!!!
taking orders? I would love to acquire a great hurdy gurdy like this one
I have been interested in the hurdy gurdy for some time. Then I saw and heard this one and I think it is perfect. Is there any possible way I might be able to purchase a set of plans so I could build one for myself. I'm about to retire and am looking for a rainy day hobby. I have the tools and both wood and metal working experience.
Excellent Sir, Thank You 🙂
Wonderful!
You did a excellent job on the building of this musical instrument, I have heard this before Irish or Scottish music, am I correct? You have a real talent and could make this to sell but I would think it would be long process to make, .....do some work on your background and how you learned to make this instrument, do you make other?
Hurdy Gurdy is featured in a lot of European folk music, but not Irish or Scottish
Very good Selfmade/where can I the DIY become?❤😂
Woah. This guy.... that's amazing
Amazing job and sounds great... do you have plans for this?
$100 LOL..You forgot to calculate the priceless woodworking skills in the cost..
My dream. Looking for to buy one
FABULOUS!
How the hell did you get this to sound so good at under $100
Craftsmanship
Knowledge, experience, PATIENCE, and lots of trial and error.
Amazing 🤩
Gorgeous, both in looks and sound! Any plans with dimensions, materials, etc., for sale if one were to try their hand at making one?
Now----- sing me songs of life, rolly-poley
Love this!
This is so cool
pretty dope
Just the materials cost 100 but, how much cost the tools you need?😉
What song did you play. I'd love to learn it.
would you be able to release the instructions/pattern thing you used to make it?
Legend
GD, that sounds amazing. I love it! Do you have plans for it?
For the interior bracing I used plans from Hurdy Gurdy Crafters but they are out of business. But if you look at the photos in the video you can see the bracing. Each set of top and bottom braces is connected by a 3/8" dowel. The spruce top is SLIGHTLY bent, not much. The brace under the bridge should be positioned so the bridge is half on/half off the brace. If the bridge was completely over the brace it would hurt the sound, if it were off the brace it would be stressful to the top. I used a sump pump steel float arm for the wheel's shaft, it's VERY hard metal that does the trick. The body can be any shape, I chose this one because it's easy to assemble. If you want to know more about how to hook up the shaft just let me know. Maybe someone has a source for complete plans on the Facebook group Hurdy Gurdy Community.
do you have any for sale? as i would totally buy one or even the file and instructions on how to make one ?
wow
Hey that's awesome! If you're willing to share some blueprints or at least some tips, I'd be very thankful.
What is the fluffy thing hanging from the tail piece for?
Hello ! I am making my first hurdy gurdy. Could you tell me, please, what kind of strings did you use for the melody strings ? Thank you !
I am interested in knowing the kind of strings as well. In some other plans I see, the strings alone would be over $100. Although I have heard of some builders that use materials like weed trimmer line. That would certainly keep the cost down.
nice
Do you realize how much she sings so for? And how much of a gift do you have being able to make one so well I would definitely consider doing this for money
Wow!!!