Because the name ‘hurdy-gurdy’ was abducted by the nineteenth-century barrel organ, this instrument is rarely taken as seriously as it deserves. Known as the ‘organistrum’ from the tenth to twelfth centuries, it was a stringed instrument played by a cranked resined wheel, not a bow. It required two operators, one of whom would crank and one play ...
be deliberately opened or closed by a mechanism of rods which were directed by the keyboard or ‘manual’. Styles & Forms | Medieval Era | Classical Instruments | Hurdy-Gurdy, Organistrum, Sinfonye & Geigenwerk | Medieval Era | Classical ...
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