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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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