Learn all about them — from hurdy-gurdies to rauschpfeifes — through the fascinating Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments site. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Hurdy Gurdy, "Prototyp": Garmarna's Stefan Brisland-Ferner and Hedningarna's Totte Mattson take two Swedish hurdy-gurdies and a smattering of electronics and produce one of the most groundbreaking albums you're going to hear from anybody in any genre. ❋ James Lynch (2006)
On an April Monday evening, when a small moon passed shyly over the city and the streets were filled with the sound of hurdy-gurdies and the spring cries of dancing children, Mr. Wrenn pranced down to the basement dining-room early, for Nelly Croubel would be down there talking to Mrs. Arty, and he gaily wanted to make plans for a picnic to occur the coming Sunday. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Howe many people know how the 18th century hurdy-gurdies at the V&A should sound? ❋ Unknown (1990)
Musicians blowing oliphants, cranking hurdy-gurdies, and pounding on drums led a bright procession along the wharves. ❋ Robert Shea (1963)
She would go for a long walk -- far enough at least to escape from hurdy-gurdies and chattering girls. ❋ Margaret Warde (N/A)
"And haven't a proper feeling for hurdy-gurdies," finished Madeline. ❋ Margaret Warde (N/A)
Hospital inmates will usually be content with hurdy-gurdies, and the poorer classes may be supplied with ballads at their own homes. ❋ Robert Means Lawrence (N/A)
A recent writer, in an essay on the "Plague of Music," remarks that under the name of music we are afflicted with every variety of noise; for example, the sounds produced by hurdy-gurdies, bag-pipes and minstrels; the harpman, the lady who has seen better days, and who sings before our house in the evening. ❋ Robert Means Lawrence (N/A)
Then came the Persians, the women playing upon hurdy-gurdies and singing ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Giant wheels, hurdy-gurdies, and quack photographers are banished from its beach and esplanade, and one may stroll undisturbed by anything but perambulators and bath-chairs. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Fig. 13 shows the arrangement of the machinery for hoisting and pumping, which was identical at the several shafts, except that the hurdy-gurdies varied from 16½ feet in diameter at the upper shaft to 21 feet at the lowest shaft. ❋ Various (N/A)
On an April Monday evening, when a small moon passed shyly over the city and the streets were filled with the sound of hurdy-gurdies and the spring cries of dancing children, Mr. Wrenn pranced down to the basement dining-room early, for Nelly ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
We passed Sicilian mule-carts, hundreds upon hundreds of them, two-wheeled, painted bright yellow or bright red and covered with gay little paintings such as one sees on ice cream venders 'carts and hurdy-gurdies, the harness of the mules studded with brass and hung with scarlet tassels. ❋ Unknown (1918)
So he went on, until by and by, above the noise of the drum and cymbals outside the penny theatre, and the hurdy-gurdies, and the showmen bawling down by the waterside, he heard voices yelling and a rush of folks running down the street past his door. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
At first, it is true, she tries to make the attic more supportable; imparts a pleasant flavour to the meal; dismisses the hurdy-gurdies that _Callender_ has chartered from the Universal Provider. ❋ Various (1898)
The darkest and most secluded hamlets around, even those in the woods, had been emptied of all their beggars, cripples, wastrels, poor, and idiots on crutches; these wretches scattered along the road, with accordions and hurdy-gurdies; they held out their hands and hats to receive the alms that Yann threw to them with his own noble look and ❋ Pierre Loti (1886)
There was much love-making -- sometimes exquisitely comic by its rustic naïveté -- and there was a good deal of dancing to the maddening music of two screaming hurdy-gurdies. ❋ Edward Harrison Barker (1885)
