Meet the Hurdy Gurdy, the Hand-Cranked Medieval Instrument with 80 Moving Parts
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Meet the Hurdy Gurdy, the Hand-Cranked Medieval Instrument with 80 Moving Parts
Donovan’s “Hurdy Gurdy Man” may be the creepiest song ever written about an obscure medieval instrument (made all the more so by its use in David Fincher’s Zodiac), but the Hurdy Gurdy did not give his recording its ominous sound. Those droning notes come from an Indian tanpura.
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