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Barrel organs are aerophones, meaning that they produce sound using air, while hurdy-gurdies are chordophones that produce music by making strings vibrate.

stringed instrument The hurdy-gurdy is the first stringed instrument to which the keyboard principle was applied. The French name, Viella a Roue (wheel fiddle), describes the method by which sound is produced. The bowing action of the fiddle is replaced by a wheel cranked by a handle.

The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a violin.

Hurdy-gurdy The hurdy-gurdy's sound was produced when a rosined wooden wheel, turned by a crank, set a number of strings in continuous droning vibration; one of these was also a melody string which could play tunes by being stopped by keys along its length. Hurdy-gurdy.

Its earliest predecessors were built in ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC. The word organ is derived from the Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon), a generic term for an instrument or a tool, via the Latin organum, an instrument similar to a portative organ used in ancient Roman circus games.

noun. : a stringed instrument in which sound is produced by the friction of a rosined wheel turned by a crank against the strings and the pitches are varied by keys. See the full definition.

plural hurdy-gurdies. 1. : a stringed instrument in which sound is produced by the friction of a rosined wheel turned by a crank against the strings and the pitches are varied by keys. 2. : any of various mechanical musical instruments (such as the barrel organ)

gur·​dy. ˈgərdē plural -es. : a revolving drum or large spool used in hauling nets and lines aboard commercial fishing boats.

There are Patty Gurdy and her Band Storm Seeker, also Michalina Malisz from Eluveitie, Konstanze Kulinsky from Adaro/La Marmotte, Anna Murphy ex Eluveitie now at Cellar Darling. Some Bands that sporadically use Hurdy Gurdies are: Faun, Schandmaul, Subway to Sally, Corvus Coax/Tanzwut, In Extremo and Saltatio Mortis.

a sustained tone drone, French bourdon, in music, a sustained tone, usually rather low in pitch, providing a sonorous foundation for a melody or melodies sounding at a higher pitch level.

For example, the sitar features three or four resonating drone strings, and Indian notes (sargam) are practiced to a drone. Bagpipes (like the Great Highland Bagpipe and the Zampogna) feature a number of drone pipes, giving the instruments their characteristic sounds. A hurdy-gurdy has one or more drone strings.

organ, in music, a keyboard instrument, operated by the player's hands and feet, in which pressurized air produces notes through a series of pipes organized in scalelike rows. The term organ encompasses reed organs and electronic organs but, unless otherwise specified, is usually understood to refer to pipe organs.