Of course we all know why these unphotoshop-related outside interests do not receive the same vitriol as mine do.

How incredibly telling.

Cheers.

Canuck,

Do you believe in the immaterial, unchanging, universal laws of spam?

Your sole contribution to PSC is the promotion of your website and various internet appearances.
As far as this site is concerned, the only difference between you and a bot who stops by to advertise vitamins is that the bot doesn't get bitter and pissy.

Methinks thou dost protest too much

that hurdy-gurdy dates back to medieval times! Also known as a wheel fiddle... or Claude for you, Viella a Roue!

this page has short sound bytes if anyone is curious.
http://www.midcoast.com/~beechhil/vielle/sounds.html

It's similar in sound to a bagpipe, but it's a stringed instrument with a rolling wheel. Rather renaissance festival-like.

there is even a soundbyte hurdy gurdy sample based VST synthesizer for Windows platform... maybe Reinman will have to include that in his repertoire!

and since it is a very old instrument, there are a lot of pieces of art that show a hurdy gurdys in them...


(this is for those that think there is no art in this discussion!) ;-b