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Just found this great musician from Canterbury , Philip G Martin. He plays the hurdy gurdy beautifully 

Hurdy Gurdy Photographed by John Merriman

The hurdy gurdy or hurdy-gurdy (also known as a wheel fiddle) is a stringed musical instrument that produces sound by a 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 a violin. Melodies are played on a keyboard that presses tangents (small wedges, usually made of wood) against one or more of the strings to change their pitch. Like most other acoustic string instruments, it has a soundboard to make the vibration of the strings audible.

Nyckelharpa, Mandola and Hurdy Gurdy By (Jan Egil Kristiansen)

Hurdy Gurdy By (merryjac)