The Cleveland Orchestra’s upcoming “Seasons” may boast hundreds of performers, but it won’t have the element that made Sunday’s performance of a different “Seasons” by Les Delices so special: a hurdy ...

Today's Beautiful Music is an introduction to the hurdy-gurdy. The unusual string instrument is played with a hand crank, and its ancestor -- the organistrum -- dates back at least to the 12th century ...

Twenty-seven years ago, in search of a hurdy-gurdy master, Donald Heller wandered into a music shop in Budapest. There, he saw a beautiful maiden, an ancient-looking stringed instrument in her lap, ...

FRYEBURG – The almost motionless man at the fair – the one who looks like a wax statue handing out fake tickets while behind him two mechanical monkeys play a grinder organ – has, as expected, some ...

The Hurdy-Gurdy continues to worm its way into pole position as the hacker’s instrument. How else could you explain a medieval wheel fiddle being turned into a synthesizer? Move over, keytar — [Rory ...