| We realized that in many other places there were hurdy-gurdies and bagpipes and musicians of all ages to play them, and above all luthiers who were ready to make new instruments. |
| To hear their early recordings in particular is to hear the timbres of the shawms, sackbuts and hurdy-gurdies of early instrumental music, rendered vocally. |
| During this epoque the hurdy-gurdies were decorated with elaborate marquetery, incrusted with ivory and precious jewels and their keybox was terminated with a finely sculpted head like the viols of the period. |
| The action is set to a thundering score by Bear McCreary, who gives hurdy-gurdies and other period instruments a good thrashing. |
| A wild assortment of mandolins, lutes, banjos, guitars and hurdy-gurdies led to a glass case against the adjacent wall. |
| As a continued development of flute clocks, the first barrel organs and hurdy-gurdies were built here more than 200 years ago. |
