hurdy-gurdy

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• Traditional folk instruments include the bandura, a variety of flutes, various fiddles and basses, drums and rattles, the bagpipe, the hurdy-gurdy, the Jew's harp, and the hammered dulcimer.
• From the house came an odor of rot, floating atop a sour wave of hurdy-gurdy music. LOST BOY LOST GIRL
• But Anna sang on, her voice rising like a shaft of pure melancholy in the cold air, now evoking Schubert's poignant hurdy-gurdy man. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
• The remainder of the evening was spent by Stephen in miscellaneous cross-examination of Mrs Bunch and in efforts to extract a tune from the hurdy-gurdy. Lost Hearts by M. R. James | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
• In the hands of these powerful musicians the hurdy-gurdy, Baroque lute, bouzouki, electric mandora, viola d'amore, and percussion combine to incite an ecstatic, energized state. World Music Central
• Favoured instruments include the hurdy-gurdy, dulcimer, recorders, zither, guitars and drums.
• The result is a programme of genuine old fashioned carols, songs and dances, performed on shawms, sackbut, recorders, flutes, curtals, lutes, guitars, harp, bagpipes and the hurdy-gurdy.
• A woman performer handles an organistrum, a sort of large hurdy-gurdy, sometimes (as apparently in this case) requiring two players, one for the crank and another for the stops. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
• Other Medieval instruments: lute, mandora, gittern, psaltery, the dulcimers, The hurdy-gurdy (a mechanical violin using a rosined wooden wheel attached to a crank to \ "bow\" its strings). Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• The result is a programme of genuine old fashioned carols, songs and dances, performed on shawms, sackbut, recorders, flutes, curtals, lutes, guitars, harp, bagpipes and the hurdy-gurdy.