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INSTRUMENTS ACCOMPANYING THE DANCES Our musical
instruments are:
the
hurdy-gurdy, instrument with wheel and cords, and the bagpipe or haversack, instrument
wind whose "pocket" is constantly inflated with the mouth. In fact old
instruments already, were strong of use at the Average Age, a little everywhere in France
and in much of foreign countries.
But it is especially in Berry in particular that these instruments were preserved and
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The HURDY-GURDY
The hurdy-gurdy with wheel is a complex instrument whose simple principle of operation
presents a certain analogy with the violin. It is a string instrument rubbed and keyboard,
whose case of resonance can be punt (in the shape of guitar) or generally convex (in the
shape of lute).
To pin,
coupled with this case is carved in the shape of human head (on the old hurdy-gurdies more
often in the shape of volute). One limps with keyboard carrying two lines of keys is in
the center of the table. This one presents painted or encrusted decorations.
The keyboard box contains the sautereaux ones (actuated by the keys) which operates the
two dic cords mélo-.
A wheel out of hard wooden is placed in a slit practised in the table; it is covered with
removable couvre-roue. Gone up on an axis, this wheel is setting in motion by a crank
fixed at the end of the instrument opposed to pinning.
The two melody cords called chantarelles cross the keyboard and are attacked by the play
of the sautereaux one.
The two bumblebees, placed side external of the case, tended on rests, constitute the low
continuous one.
Two other cords, fly and trumpet (or blow of wrist) are placed contrary to the bumblebees
on the interior side of the case. Lastly, four cords sympathetic nerves or stamps of
resonance are placed in parallel and flat on the edge external of the table.
The characteristic of the hurdy-gurdy with wheel consists of the presence of a small
mobile rest called " dog" which takes support in the hollow axis of the
rest supporting the fly and which vibrates when the cord trumpet is put in abrupt
vibration for the execution of " detached" by the hand which actuates the
crank. This detached gives to the wheel its musical, specific characteristics.
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