another option offers auto-accompaniment with a digital orchestra that “follows your cue” by matching the player’s pace with a professional-sounding instrumental backup. You’ll even find ...

The hurdy-gurdy is the duck-billed platypus of instruments ... Some believe they now have the time to learn the instrument – which professional players describe as akin to patting your head ...

Ever heard of the hurdy-gurdy? “When I saw the hurdy-gurdy, it blew my mind,” says Peter Micholic. “It looked so alien compared to the other instruments I was familiar with, and I couldn't ...

The hurdy gurdy is one of the weirder musical instruments to make its way into rock and metal in recent years, but in bands like Swedish folk metal band Eluveitie, it just works. That’s thanks largely ...

In 1968, Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan released Hurdy Gurdy Man – the influential title track of his The Hurdy Gurdy Man album from the same year, which featured the contributions of a ...

HAMMOND, La. (WGNO) — Musician Harry Roullier fills Renaissance Fest with sights and sounds as he plays the Hurdy Gurdy. A festival is not a festival in Louisiana without music and the Louisiana ...

A mechanical string instrument from the Middle Ages that can still evoke chills today... With a few turns on a hurdy-gurdy’s hand crank, a rosined wheel sweeps against the instrument’s three main ...

As many pointed out in the comments, this blurs the line between a guitar and a hurdy gurdy.