How do they take to Renaissance music?
Well, over here they only really know about rock and jazz and blues. There are only one or two bands over here, like the Terra Nova Consort, who play this kind of music, so to find the music you have to go to the back of the record store to the part marked ‘throwaway items’! Luckily, I know what to look for because I know the instruments that are being played. They have crumhorns and shawms and hurdy-gurdies … now that’s an instrument. I have two hurdy-gurdies. Do you know what they are? That’s where you turn the handle, right? And the monkey jumps up and down, yes! That’s the instrument I’d play if I didn’t play the guitar. It’s great. I’m still a novice, though. I play it through an amp on stage and it sounds unbelievable: I think if the rock’n’roll 18-year-olds of today heard a hurdy-gurdy played properly through an amp, with some echo, they’d probably buy that instead of a guitar. It has even more of a roar than a guitar. It has amazing sustain and it sounds like an elephant. But t
Well, over here they only really know about rock and jazz and blues. There are only one or two bands over here, like the Terra Nova Consort, who play this kind of music, so to find the music you have to go to the back of the record store to the part marked ‘throwaway items’! Luckily, I know what to look for because I know the instruments that are being played. They have crumhorns and shawms and hurdy-gurdies … now that’s an instrument. I have two hurdy-gurdies. Do you know what they are? That’s where you turn the handle, right? And the monkey jumps up and down, yes! That’s the instrument I’d play if I didn’t play the guitar. It’s great. I’m still a novice, though. I play it through an amp on stage and it sounds unbelievable: I think if the rock’n’roll 18-year-olds of today heard a hurdy-gurdy played properly through an amp, with some echo, they’d probably buy that instead of a guitar. It has even more of a roar than a guitar. It has amazing sustain and it sounds like an elephant. But t
