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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.

Archive 2006-01-01 James Lynch 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.

Top 10 CD's of 2005 smg58 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.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

Howe many people know how the 18th century hurdy-gurdies at the V&A should sound?

Computer Underground Digest Volume 1, Issue #1.26 1990

Musicians blowing oliphants, cranking hurdy-gurdies, and pounding on drums led a bright procession along the wharves.

The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963

She would go for a long walk -- far enough at least to escape from hurdy-gurdies and chattering girls.

Betty Wales, Sophomore Margaret Warde

"And haven't a proper feeling for hurdy-gurdies," finished Madeline.

Betty Wales, Sophomore Margaret Warde

Hospital inmates will usually be content with hurdy-gurdies, and the poorer classes may be supplied with ballads at their own homes.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

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.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various