Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's (LACO) Baroque Conversations spotlights the harpsichord, hurdy-gurdy and musette in an evening led by LACO Principal Keyboard Patricia Mabee and featuring Curtis Berak, ...

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Twenty-seven years ago, in search of a hurdy-gurdy master, Donald Heller wandered into a music shop in Budapest. There, he saw a beautiful maiden, an ancient-looking stringed instrument in her lap, ...

Today's Beautiful Music is an introduction to the hurdy-gurdy. The unusual string instrument is played with a hand crank, and its ancestor -- the organistrum -- dates back at least to the 12th century ...

The Cleveland Orchestra’s upcoming “Seasons” may boast hundreds of performers, but it won’t have the element that made Sunday’s performance of a different “Seasons” by Les Delices so special: a hurdy ...

THE hurdy-gurdy, a sort of mechanical violin (you turn a handle instead of wielding a bow, and play keys instead of stopping the strings directly), with a sound similar to bagpipes because of its ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The hurdy-gurdy is the duck-billed platypus of instruments. It has strings but you don’t pick or strum them. It ...

Baroque figurine: monkey with hurdy-gurdy, 1753 Painted in color, painted gold. Unglazed base Sculpture Height: 14 cm model no. 15 (new mold no. 60016) Condition and Literature Estimate Subscribers ...

The Hurdy-Gurdy continues to worm its way into pole position as the hacker’s instrument. How else could you explain a medieval wheel fiddle being turned into a synthesizer? Move over, keytar — [Rory ...