Emergency Hurdy Gurdy Surgery
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As many of you may have hear, my hurdy gurdy suffered a beer-related injury on Friday night at the John Train show at Fergie's during 25 Cromwell Street's set.
While I'm impressed with the the overwhelming outpouring of concern for my gurdy - in fact, Pope Benedict the Off-Putting has announced a that a special Mass will be said for my hurdy gurdy today - I really must step in and tell all of you that my gurdy is fine. Here's what happened and here's what I did to fix it:
Inexplicably, the my gurdy's crank slammed into a mic stand (by "inexplicably" I, of course, mean that it was totally inexplicable unless you pause to consider that I'd had a fee too many beers and was stumbling about not unlike ) causing the screw that turns the wheel to catch on the bushing through which the screw passing causing the whole thing to tear loose and...well, the result was this:
The wheel, the piece that holds the bushing, everything, had to come out, be examined, and then put back in, but in a better spot. This was not going to pretty.
What I ended up having to do was to move the wooden piece that holds the bushing back about four inches. This time I made sure to put washers between the screw and the wood as to decrease the odds of the screws tearing through the wood. 
I really really wish I'd managed to get a recording of the my gurdy tearing itself apart because it really was the most remarkable sound.So, despite being left with two ugly metal screws protruding from my gurdy (I'll have to search hardware & art supply stores for something to cover them with) as well several ugly holes in its body (remind me to pick up some plastic wood), this actually turned out to be a fortunate turn-of-events as the gurdy now sounds about a thousand times better than it ever did; resetting the wheel has allowed it to turn more truly. Maybe I should drink more often.
By the way, the next 25 Cromwell Street show will be in February.
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