This was the general feeling behind the 1870 City Ordinance banning hurdy-gurdy playing on any ... and verbiage including the barrel organs and hurdy-gurdies in a category of machinery making ...

They work in pairs, taking turns toting the barrel ... is the hub of the hurdy-gurdy business. Lazaro places the notes on the wood-and-wire cylinders of his organs, first mastering the tunes ...

with a good number of hurdy-gurdy players. One blind player encountered by Mayhew had worked the streets in the city for 40 years. Because of its volume, its players were one of the targets (often ...

His decision to draw on the hurdy-gurdy gag, a well-worn scenario from ... George W Bush playing a Christian song from a barrel organ for a dancing monkey in a bowler hat, Tony Blair.

Bryant said “hurdy-gurdy” refers to an instrument that must be wound up with a crank, like the organ run by monkeys attached to a miniature, but working, convertible car that he built.

On Monday night, I couldn't have told you the difference between a barrel organ and a hurdy gurdy, and I certainly wouldn't have figured music boxes could play a role in my understanding.

The hurdy-gurdy is a fascinating string instrument dating from sometime around the 10th century. There is an active community of modern enthusiasts, but one can’t simply walk into a music shop ...

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.

The hurdy-gurdy is a fascinating string instrument dating from sometime around the 10th century. There is an active community of modern enthusiasts, but one can’t simply walk into a music shop ...