Neil Brook's (of the cotton-changing video) website:
http://www.hurdy-gurdy.org.uk/He's built a replica of the instrument Bosch painted:
He indicates that a smaller wheel makes a "reasonable tone" easier to achieve.
Aug 18, 2009
Aug 17, 2009
Dannis Havlena, of the $20 hurdy-gurdy, has made some other hurdy-gurdies as well. This "fiddle-gurdy" looks interesting. Maybe I'll start with that instead of the $20 hurdy-gurdy so I can figure out how to get the wheel to sound good first, then add a keybox later on.
(from dennishavlena.com)
I've been looking at tools, and I'm hoping to get away with what's available at the student machine shop in Cory Hall. There's a scroll saw there, and I think a lathe. Definitely a drill press. Fortunately, hurdy-gurdies cost thousands of dollars, so I can safely spend a lot on tools before I'm into it-would-have-been-cheaper-to-just-buy-one territory.
The video I posted of Andrey Vinogradov playing the zanfona is amazing, and still blows me away every time I hear it, but there's more going on in the sound there than just the zanfona. I think this is probably a lot closer to what his instrument actually sounds like:
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