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To hear their early recordings in particular is to hear the timbres of the shawms, sackbuts and hurdy-gurdies of early instrumental music, rendered vocally.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2011

He brought a bit of everything with him: lutes, gambas, hurdy-gurdies, psalteries, fancy carved music stands and even a serpent, an old wind instrument that looks like its namesake.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2011

This fails too when the string of hurdy-gurdies cascade down a mountain trail in a careening dance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally, the robbers resort to collecting all the hurdy-gurdies in the region to distract the boy from his long enough for them to get the gold.

From Time Magazine Archive

The little gnat-like buzzings shrill, The hurdy-gurdies of the street.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price