What is Hurdy-Gurdy?

Hurdy-Gurdy is a stringed tool with a keyboard and around that acts as a bow that is continuously attracted through the strings by turning the handle or handle. There are two kinds of strings on Hurdy-Gurdy: drones or bourdon chains that play the same playground continuously, and melodic strings that change the playground when editing on the keyboard. Both types of chains are modified using tuning pins. The Hurdy-Gurdy keyboard is arranged as a piano keyboard.

The name Hurdy-Gurdy was also incorrectly applied to the barrel organ, probably because it was also played by turning the handle, which led to a certain confusion. The situation of the names, however, is as confusing as it is, because Hurdy-Gurdy is or has been known as: Bauernleier, Chifonia, Ghirona, Leier, Lyra, Orgistrum, Rotata, Sambuca and Sinfonia.

Hurdy-Gurdy has played many and different roles in the world of music. They used top -bourgeois musicians, beggars, in church music to accompany dance at public celebrations and weddings, in shows, orchestracI ballet, on salons, in chamber music and operas. He was used in Rameau for Hurdy-Gurdy, as well as Donizetti and Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Recently "The Hurdy Gurdy Man" by singer Donovan brought an instrument to the public eye, and yes, now there is such a thing as Jazz Hurdy-Gurdy. Well -known players include Nigel Eaton, Mike Eaton, Steve Tyler, Michael Muskett, Valentin Clastrier, Gaston Rivière, Patrick Bouffard, Gilles Chabenat, Marc Anthony, Cliff Stapleton and Duncan Moss.

There are several Hurdy-Gurdy Festivals, including the Saint Chartier festival, held in the summer and including competitions and celebrated in England in Lancaster in 2007.E Water Hurdy-Gurdy Festival will be held in Fort Flagler State Park in Washington and claims the Hurdy-Gurdies hemisphere.