Apple Pickers (New Hurdy Gurdy Tune)

a new tune, written by yours truly for the occasion of Anna Pack's birthday (top British melodeon player and long time collaborator)
This Hurdy Gurdy is in normal Gd tuning but with melody strings in F. (Fgd)
Double keyboard Hurdy Gurdy made by Chris Eaton.
Accompanied by live cello, live accordion, Logic Pro clarinet and Brazilian brass .
Video and extra audio accompaniment mixed and synced in imovie
The dots will be in my fb photo album called "All My Tunes" as usual

#hurdygurdy #stpatricksday #irishmusic #breton #medievalmusic #folkmusic #folklore #mazurka #drone #trance #waltz #loreenamckennitt #vikingmusic #piratemusic #ledzeppelin

nigeleaton.bandcamp.com

Nigel Eaton is a British multi-instrumentalist and composer best known for playing the hurdy-gurdy. Eaton played the piano and cello before switching to the hurdy-gurdy in 1981 when his father, Christopher Eaton, began manufacturing them. Eaton has been described as the "foremost hurdy-gurdy player in popular music in North America and Europe"
Eaton has performed as a member of a number of different bands, including Whirling Pope Joan (with Julie Murphy), Blowzabella, Ancient Beatbox, The Duellists, and Firestarters of Leiden. He has released two solo albums, The Music of the Hurdy-Gurdy (1987) and Pandemonium (2002), and the collaborative album Panic at the Café (1993) with Andy Cutting.

https://nigeleaton.bandcamp.com/music
https://open.spotify.com/album/3UDM2G...