Fun at the Faire #77 - Musician by goodoleboy
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Captured 4/27/14, at the beautiful Renaissance Faire, held at the beautiful Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area, in semi beautiful Irwindale, California.
ZOOM worthy.
A musician of sorts, dressed in a brightly colored mottled paisley costume, doing a solo on a violin of sorts. What the devil is that multistringed device? Probably the ancestor of some type of modern instrument I suspect. I should have asked the dude what it was, but was in too much of a stunned fog from all the excitement and surprises at the Faire.
Achtung, achtung.
A late note from Mark/anahata.c.
"it is called a "Nyckelharpa". It's Swedish, and "nyckel" means "Key"---thus a "keyed harp". That's what those long "prongs" are, to the side of the strings: keys. It's a strange sounding instrument---kind of like a bowed guitar, if you can imagine. It's actually a bowed "Hurdy Gurdy"---the Hurdy Gurdy goes back before the Renaissance, and is one of the oddest instruments on earth, just like its descendent, the Nyckelharpa."
Thank you much, Mark, for enlightening us in this bizarre area.
Auf wiedersehen.
Comments (8)
I think this musician playing the hurdy-gurdy ... with a keyboard a bit sophisticated! The hurdy-gurdy is a stringed instrument with a wooden wheel instead of a bow. The wheel is turned by a crank, while the left hand of the musician plays the melody on a keyboard.!!! à mon avis, ce musicien joue de la vielle à roue...avec un clavier un peu sophistiqué ! La vielle à roue est un instrument à cordes frottées par une roue en bois au lieu d'un archet. La roue est tournée avec une manivelle, pendant que la main gauche du musicien joue la mélodie sur un clavier.
Great work on this truly fun captures, Harry.
Nice postwork of this musician of sorts. Much like that complicated instrument he was playing. I bet it sounded great.
He certainly is a dapper gentleman in that wonderful costume; as far as the instrument, Claude may well be right, I have no idea. I would have loved to hear it, though. It's a fascinating thing! Seriously cool shots here, Harry, well done as always!
Interesting musical instrument. Aloha
In the middle of the hubbub he plays his music instrument. Superb shots. I have no idea what an instrument it is, but it looks very interesting.
I'm going reeeally slow, now, because I'm spending so much time on each upload...but again, it's because I haven't commented in a while. I wanted to do this shot because you were kind enough to quote me (and a good job of excerpting too!). And because I love the shots themselves. The first 2 shots are with your typical fine composition---he's centered, there's almost symmetry in the number of surrounding people on each side of him, the tent-peaks either frame or surround his beautiful head-dress, you've got him in focus in both shots, and his posture is angled but facing us and he has a wonderful smiling expression even as he concentrates on that strange polyglot instrument. The last 2 shots show us the bizarre instrument itself---with a closeup on the bottom. We can see what a strange grid of strings and wood it is; and how strange to see it bowed, too. But we also see, in the bottom shot, the immense activity of his costume: the beautiful swirl, the beautiful buttons (they're patterned too), the folds, even the beautiful strap that holds the instrument---made of the same fabric as his gown, I assume. I wonder if he didn't have it made for him...Beautiful detail, and a very vivid capture of a most unusual performance (for the costume and the instrument). And a fine capture of his expression, acknowledging you but still wound-up in playing. These faire shots are carnivals, Harry, they never wane. I can't believe you got them all in one shoot: I'd have needed days to get this variety. And you can say, I'm sure, that this is the only shot in all of RR of a Nyckelharpa (or of anything near it). Fine eye catching this: It's not an instrument many would have bothered to even look at...
Thanks for the info on the fascinating looking instrument.. Stunning if somewhat warm looking dude! Great outfit.. Fines shots Rob