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Automatic "Wheel Fiddle" Hurdy-gurdy
By Jan Kijlstra

There have been hurdy-gurdies with organ pipes [the "Drehorgel", or
crank-organ], but they were operated by cranking the wheel, so they did
not play automatically like a player piano or music-box.

I asked Craig Brougher if he knew of a hurdy-gurdy -- the lyra or lyre
type, with strings, not being an organ! -- that could be played
mechanically like a player piano or so.  He advised me to put this
question in the MMD, so here it is.

Jan Kijlstra

 [ Related question:  When was a "stored program controller", e.g.,
 [ the pinned cylinder, added to the crank-organ hurdy-gurdy?  
 [ -- Robbie


(Message sent Tue 11 Nov 1997, 08:51:56 GMT, from time zone GMT+0100.)

Key Words in Subject:  Automatic, Fiddle, Hurdy-gurdy, Wheel

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