Anxo Pintos Explains the Zanfona (Hurdy Gurdy) • [Otherlands: Spain]

This bonus video is an excerpt from a collaboration with Galician zanfona master, Anxo Pintos for my project OTHERLANDS: A Global Music Exploration. To kick off our session, Anxo explained the ins/outs of his magnificent instrument...the tuning of 15 strings, the four drones, the eight sympathetic strings, the buzzing "dog" bridges, the chromatic keyboard, and more. To check out our recording of Anxo's composition, "K," please visit: (   • K  • Casey Driessen & Anxo Pintos [Otherla...  ) If you’d like to read more about our collaboration, please visit: (http://www.caseydriessen.com/blog/k-w...) LOCATION: Pontecaldelas, Spain DATE: October 13, 2019 CREDITS Zanfona (Hurdy Gurdy): Anxo Pintos Fiddle & Audio/Video: Casey Driessen Production Assistant: Emmette Driessen Special Thanks: Alfonso Franco To follow along the OTHERLANDS project, please visit: OTHERLANDS Webpage (http://www.CaseyDriessen.com/Otherlands) Instagram (  / caseydriessen  , Facebook (  / caseydriessen  , or this YouTube channel. ABOUT THE PROJECT OTHERLANDS: A Global Music Exploration follows GRAMMY-nominated 5-string American fiddler Casey Driessen as he travels with his family to various countries across the globe to meet with local acoustic-based musicians with roots in their own traditions. Musical exchanges and travels are documented via audio, video and photography elements with collected materials released over the course of the project via his website and social media outlets and official musical releases likely to come at the end of travels. OTHERLANDS is an independently designed and produced project that is self-contained with a small collection of audio and video equipment. All engineering and recording, including any post-production, can be set up, operated, and completed by Casey wherever on the globe he happens to be. For more information and to follow the project, please visit — http://www.CaseyDriessen.com/Otherlands