What a fun invention. I imagine you could sell these for fairly cheap and people could easily turn their ukuleles into a completely different instrument and back again as they wanted. Very fun idea.
another reason to love wheels. took me awhile to appreciate those funny small ukes. i now keep several in standard or other tunings and string sizes, and once assembled a Ugear hurdy gurdy kit. gave it to my granddaughter... it employed a hidden flywheel in the body that added flow and control to it. glad i clicked here. i've made several strangeish insts but you got your build very well done. fun.
Is she diesel ? That is damned impressive 👏. People like you make the internet what it was intended to be. A tool for opening up the minds of others and share ideas. It sounds great 👍. Well done. I saw another fella with a fishing reel with a plectrum on it mounted to his guitar. The turning gave near perfect mandolin effect. But your idea is simpler and sounds rustic and beautiful.
''people like you make the internet what it was intended to be'' this may be the hardest compliment i have ever witnessed, both in person and over the internet, and i agree with it wholeheartedly
This is great. I love when UA-cam suggests a video I would have liked to watch 7 years ago😅 I would like to see this on a mountain dulcimer, I think it would work well with the drone strings
Ha!....A wonderful re-invention! Very cool!......saw a person playing an authentic Hurdy Gurdy,.....and they sometimes spin the drone wheel, back and forth, to create a rhythm. Moving it forward and back.
That is awesome. Totally gives off early music vibes and achieves its aim of sounding like a uke hurdy gurdy hybrid. Think it would sound great in an open tuning playing a melody against drone notes, or installed on a multi course uke. The possibilities are endless. Well done on this superb innovative invention.
Surely this could be done with a belt between two wheels. Like a tank tread. That way it would be flat against the flat strings. Could fit a guitar, but not have to be so tall
This is genius. Maybe the strings aren't exactly flat though, because the pressure required to play different strings, at different volumes, is variable. Maybe in the way that a bridge is tilted to compensate for thickness, the belt plate would be slanted, or even comb shaped for quicker actuation and better volume
So a few days ago (before discovering this video ! ) I ordered a uke to try this on. I got a six string and I'm going to try two or three wheels with very clever thumb triggers on the first handle to selectively engage the others. Then ten foot pedals for a handpan drum with air valves to cossotto reed boxes ... and harmonica.
neat soul...clearly a superior imagination...clearly superior handyman abilities...clearly only just winning the struggle with an innate reserve...you must be from Canadia!
Sir Believe it or not I had the Same idea as You but rather with a Guitar an Was Wondering how it would sound an even Though That's a Ukalaly you've Given Me a Great ldea of how it Would Have Sounded , Thank You for Sharing that for now I Know ! 🇺🇸👍🏻👍🏻
Nice. Have you ever seen a Gizmotron? They were available in the late '70s, and were designed for electric bass, mounted just above the bridge. Consisting of 4 small toothed rubber wheels attached to a small electric motor, keys over each wheel when pressed set the wheels spinning and lowered them against the string for an arco-like effect, singly or for any combination of the 4 for chords. I think a guy from the pop group 10 cc invented it. Remarkable little device, they are very rare and pricey if you can find one
Thats pretty cool...Ive been thinking about making a hurdy-gurdy or years. Then I see this. The wheels are spinning again. Thanks or sharing....I think.LOL
As a cellist, not necessarily. It could have the opposite affect. The "bow" if too close to the squishy middle of the string could deaden the sound, especially because it isn't a bow but a rigid wheel. Putting it nearer the bridge allows for more volume and nasaly hurry gurdy type sound too
That’s so cool! I love my ukuleles and I often add things like servo motors for experiments on them. What material is the wheel? It’s so shiny!! You’d probably get a slightly better sound on a curved body but that’s a few iterations away
How is the circular bow, contacting the flat aligned strings? Ever thought of a flat track, like a bulldozer tracks configuration? It's a cool device, by the way, you have their!
that's sick, he turned an ukulele into a hurdygurdy. it's got such a cool sound
I used to hate the ukulele. Now I kind of like it.
Big same @@jmachatch6696
Just curious what you hated about it did you also hate guitars and other string ed instruments?@@jmachatch6696
@@jmachatch6696it's no longer an ukulele, its a hurdelele
That’s what it reminded me of
Straight from medieval Hawaii: The ukelurdygurdy
This is the perfect name for it
And the other one is the Guitardygurdy.
hurdelele.. nah I like yours better lol
“When the ukelurdygurdy’s done, when the battles lost and won …”
- William Shakespeare, “The Hawaiish Play”.
I think I just appreciate the joy of this man enjoying his toys.
it is an instrument not a toy
He made it into a new instrument with a toy, yes. @@mrranto5789
@@mrranto5789 Give me a break. it’s a figure of speech
@@mrranto5789what is a toy, except and instrument of joy
@@nickcarroll8565 very nice! :)
What a fun invention. I imagine you could sell these for fairly cheap and people could easily turn their ukuleles into a completely different instrument and back again as they wanted. Very fun idea.
you'd have to modify the uke bridge and saddle for the radius of the curve on the wheel. A fair amount to make it work. hard to sell as an attachment.
Found this video absolutelly accidentally. Very interesting sound. I like the hurdy gurdy, but what you have is something new and incredible.
thank you youtube, for reccomending this to 15k people 6 years after the videos release
Should have been more.
@@johnsayles4316You're a happy soul.
@@simoncardie9371
Yes.
I try to make everyone else happy, too.
another reason to love wheels. took me awhile to appreciate those funny small ukes. i now keep several in standard or other tunings and string sizes, and once assembled a Ugear hurdy gurdy kit. gave it to my granddaughter... it employed a hidden flywheel in the body that added flow and control to it.
glad i clicked here. i've made several strangeish insts but you got your build very well done. fun.
you're one cool grandpa for making instruments and giving them to your family. that is a beautiful thing. i hope you are well.
This is a fantastic invention. Great work Fron!
The Hurdy Gurdy has been around for a few hundred years. He didn’t invent anything here.
Is she diesel ?
That is damned impressive 👏.
People like you make the internet what it was intended to be.
A tool for opening up the minds of others and share ideas.
It sounds great 👍. Well done.
I saw another fella with a fishing reel with a plectrum on it mounted to his guitar. The turning gave near perfect mandolin effect.
But your idea is simpler and sounds rustic and beautiful.
''people like you make the internet what it was intended to be''
this may be the hardest compliment i have ever witnessed, both in person and over the internet, and i agree with it wholeheartedly
This is great. I love when UA-cam suggests a video I would have liked to watch 7 years ago😅 I would like to see this on a mountain dulcimer, I think it would work well with the drone strings
Same. My only disappointment in this whole experience is that this video wasn't recommended to me before now. I guess better late than never.
use a dremel
Ha!....A wonderful re-invention! Very cool!......saw a person playing an authentic Hurdy Gurdy,.....and they sometimes spin the drone wheel, back and forth, to create a rhythm. Moving it forward and back.
It’s a hurdy-guiturdy!! 😂
That is awesome. Totally gives off early music vibes and achieves its aim of sounding like a uke hurdy gurdy hybrid.
Think it would sound great in an open tuning playing a melody against drone notes, or installed on a multi course uke. The possibilities are endless.
Well done on this superb innovative invention.
That's the answer to play chords on a string instrument without strumming! Wonderful!
This is fascinating, I wonder if I could do something similar with my guitalele!
I was thinking the same thing.
It sounds like a Lira da Gamba
It does indeed!
Браво! Отлично придумано!
Wow! I love this instrument !!! Bravo!
This is soooo good I’m now mega inspired! Thankyou Fron
Sub #400 & glad you popped up onto my feed - 7 years down the track…which is odd …but, what a delight. God bless.
I misread that like he pooped onto your feet, lol
Bery, bery Nice, and it is a fine musical instrument congratulations millions of congratulations.
For me it is a celestial music.
Thank you very much Mr. ParalellUniverse's Thom Yorke.
Surely this could be done with a belt between two wheels. Like a tank tread. That way it would be flat against the flat strings. Could fit a guitar, but not have to be so tall
This is genius. Maybe the strings aren't exactly flat though, because the pressure required to play different strings, at different volumes, is variable.
Maybe in the way that a bridge is tilted to compensate for thickness, the belt plate would be slanted, or even comb shaped for quicker actuation and better volume
Read my mind
Use stepper motors to mimic the movement of a bow?
That sounds a lot more complex, to be frank.
Once you start making things, you get an idea of what is easy and what is hard.
@@hellomate639it’s just one extra wheel
What you might not have noticed is that this was recorded in Middle Earth's Shire and he's Gandalf brother 😂
Génial instrument ! Bravohh ! Et chapeau pour l’exercice de dissociation !
So a few days ago (before discovering this video ! ) I ordered a uke to try this on. I got a six string and I'm going to try two or three wheels with very clever thumb triggers on the first handle to selectively engage the others. Then ten foot pedals for a handpan drum with air valves to cossotto reed boxes ... and harmonica.
So cool! Thanks for sharing!
oh. OH! this is brilliant! I play hurdygurdy and uke! What an interesting idea.....
I love these kind of ideas. Try everything and see what works!
Incredible work 👏🏽
Well, it's nice to see that someone invented something 7 years ago that I just now thought of😅
This is awesome!
Jimmy Page: "Hold my Beer"
no jimmy, strum with the bow and use the beer bottle as a slide
more like hold my fifth of jack daniels
Great idea to do that on guitar 👍😀.
In France we have " Vielle a roue" similar instrument
Great job
He’s a genius 🤯
This is not an invention, it is a modification of an existing instrument, the hurdy-gurdy 😮🇬🇧🌈
There' a Pidgeon stuck to your head in the thumbnail.
Cool man.... Sometimes I get crazy ideas too when I play my uke... ❤
neat soul...clearly a superior imagination...clearly superior handyman abilities...clearly only just winning the struggle with an innate reserve...you must be from Canadia!
So cool, this resly sounds like the háromhúros brácsa we have in hungarian folk music!
Greetings from Cambridge! Cool invention!
I feel like this is an alternate reality Walter White if he didn’t cook Meth with his former student and turned his genius to music instead! Bravo! 🎉
Wonderful!!
this is incredible, definitely going to have to attempt to build something like this for myself!
Sir Believe it or not I had the Same idea as You but rather with a Guitar an Was Wondering how it would sound an even Though That's a Ukalaly you've Given Me a Great ldea of how it Would Have Sounded , Thank You for Sharing that for now I Know ! 🇺🇸👍🏻👍🏻
Nice.
Have you ever seen a Gizmotron?
They were available in the late '70s, and were designed for electric bass, mounted just above the bridge.
Consisting of 4 small toothed rubber wheels attached to a small electric motor, keys over each wheel when pressed set the wheels spinning and lowered them against the string for an arco-like effect, singly or for any combination of the 4 for chords.
I think a guy from the pop group 10 cc invented it.
Remarkable little device, they are very rare and pricey if you can find one
A rocketmail email, goodness
Tight on Fron! Thats a cool instrument!
Sounds beautiful
Incredible wowwww I love it oh my!
Very charming instrument addition, indeed.
UA-cam random vid suggestion ftw. Nice.
This is so awesome! I wish these where on sale, I love the sound of the Hurdy Gurdy but they are too expensive!
I got married two months after this video was uploaded, oh man I’m getting old
Wonderful!
The poor man's hurdy gurdy.
Good & very nice invention , I hope one day we will see a good player for this new invented instrument .
That’s awesome 👏 keep up the inventions
this is the most transmasc instrument I've ever seen
Thats pretty cool...Ive been thinking about making a hurdy-gurdy or years. Then I see this. The wheels are spinning again. Thanks or sharing....I think.LOL
It's Amazing)😊
The best Sustain!
sounds just like a real sea shanty
This rocks. Nice work
Can't wait to hear it on some records.
Im impressed, well done Sir 👍
A waist strap will make playing this easier (hurdy-gurdy player).
This is the best thing I have ever seen.
The contact place on the strings must be closer to the open hole for a better sound
As a cellist, not necessarily. It could have the opposite affect. The "bow" if too close to the squishy middle of the string could deaden the sound, especially because it isn't a bow but a rigid wheel. Putting it nearer the bridge allows for more volume and nasaly hurry gurdy type sound too
With nylon? Absolutely not! Maybe for plucking…
sounds like autumn's tradition
Awesome invention!!
nemám končetinu v zápěstí již 35 let no jediné řešení je obojek s trsátkem aspoň na jednoduchý rytmus..... děkuji za pokus
Very cool!
Ah a makeshift hurdy gurdy
it's cool that youtube just recommended this to me
This would sounds sick in some psychedelic music ngl
He made a Hurdy-Gurdy that's sick
That’s so cool! I love my ukuleles and I often add things like servo motors for experiments on them. What material is the wheel? It’s so shiny!!
You’d probably get a slightly better sound on a curved body but that’s a few iterations away
Only if Hawaii existed much earlier… then, this could actually be a modern day instrument.
It's always the videos with the default titles
Very cool. Keep on rocking :)
Slightly strange background with a canoe sticking out of the author's head, but interesting.
It sounds like a organ a little easier to carry lol
I am looking forward for the IMG 1039
Awesome!!
Если говорить серьезно, то здесь решен один из недостатков щипковых, это длительность нот.
I'm giving this video a Thumbs Up if for no other reason than it's from a Fellow Canadian ! :)
Now I'm pretty sure this is some kinda VIOLation of some laws regarding the musical instruments
Good stuff old man
Love it!
You did it. You made ukelele bearable!
Класс!) Вы интересный изобретатель)
Hurdy gurdy man!!!
Fantastic😉
Idėja gal ir gera.
How is the circular bow, contacting the flat aligned strings? Ever thought of a flat track, like a bulldozer tracks configuration? It's a cool device, by the way, you have their!
Wholesome Kevin Spacey playing tunes
fantastic
More of this !!!!! Please
Impractical instrument!!
very good ..sounds cool