![]() I also got to appreciate the fact that it doesn’t have to come from a music store to be a real instrument - that’s kind of a sore point with me. “I got really good at it, went down to shows and got to really appreciate what you can do with a simple percussion instrument. ![]() “The spoons was kind of like - that was my sidebar,” Pasko said from his home in Niverville. He learned to play spoons from his father at age 10 (he’s now 51). But he continued to build up his chops on the spoons, which led him to explore other percussion instruments. Eck” Eck, and the Urban Holiness Society with Caroline “MotherJudge” Isachsen. Over the years, Pasko has played bass in several area bands, including Chefs of the Future with Jug Stomper Michael “Mr. Joseph Pasko, a longtime player of the spoons, ukulele, accordion, bass and other instruments, and the percussionist with local folk group Three Quarter North, has spent the last three-plus years building percussion kits out of found objects - including circular saw blades, tin cans, pots, PVC piping and even a toilet flange. Haymes isn’t alone in the Capital Region when it comes to finding unusual instruments to play. I don’t shop where these guys shop, which is kind of fun.” no.’ I’m going to the antique stores, see if they’ve got washboards. ![]() ‘Oh, let’s go to the music store let’s see what they got.’ I’m like, ‘Well. “When we pull into a town, the guitar geeks. “I do my shopping in Toys “R” Us and hardware stores,” Haymes said, setting up before one of the Jug Stompers’ weekly Monday night gigs at McGeary’s Irish Pub. At the band’s shows, he’s armed with washboards, mouth harps, nose flutes and an assortment of other toys - literally - that he packs into a large trunk. Haymes calls himself a “utility infielder” in Ramblin Jug Stompers, responsible for many of the unusual sounds that don’t come from the typical stringed instruments in acoustic bands. Most hurdy-gurdies have multiple drone strings, which give a constant pitch accompaniment to the melody, resulting in a sound similar to that of bagpipes.When Greg “Wild Bill” Haymes of Ramblin Jug Stompers goes shopping for instruments, he isn’t usually going to a music store. ![]() Like most other acoustic stringed instruments, it has a sound board and hollow cavity to make the vibration of the strings audible. Melodies are played on a keyboard that presses tangents-small wedges, typically made of wood-against one or more of the strings to change their pitch. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a violin. The hurdy-gurdy is a stringed instrument that produces sound by a hand crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. This gets you closer to the experience you would have had at the time the music was written.Īnd more about the Hurdy Gurdy, also called a wheel fiddle or wheel vielle, from Wikipedia: Then when we play Brahms, we change our instruments to those from Brahms’ time in the mid-19th century. When we play Bach, we play on instruments and use techniques that would have been familiar to Bach himself in the early 18th century. The OAE specializes in playing replicas of instruments from the time periods in which music was created. You might also get a glimpse at the Donkey’s Jawbone, Deer’s Antlers, and a bagpipe. Wherever I would have gone, I would have started a party.”ĭoes a Hurdy Gurdy sound like an all-in-one portable dance band? Take a look and a listen to this string instrument with this Hurdy Gurdy instrument demonstration by Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment musician Adrian Woodward. “If I’d been a musician in the sixteenth century, I probably would have picked the Hurdy Gurdy because I imagine it would have made me very popular.
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