The hurdy-gurdy is one of Europe's oldest musical instruments. A kind of mechanical violin, it uses keys and a crank, along with melody and drone strings. Some call it the medieval synthesizer, and a ...

The city clerk has not had an application yet this year.” To be precise, the instrument carried about by these Italians—and ...

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, ...

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 ...

Ever heard of a hurdy-gurdy? You may know it by many other names – vielle a roue, zanfona, or organistrum – as there is a version of this medieval instrument in ...

LEEDS, Alabama – It was Saturday night at the Leeds Theatre and Arts Center and a performance by one of Alabama's most noted storytellers, Dolores Hydock, was about to take place. As Hydock got ready ...

Would you love to launch your own Middle Ages band but can’t find a lutist let alone a good hurdy gurdy player? First off, congratulations on knowing what a hurdy gurdy is (man). But second and more ...

Musician Ethan James, whose career spanned the psychedelic 1960s to the punk 1980s and ended as a performer of medieval folk music, has died. He was 56. Mr. James, who moved back to San Francisco ...