An unusual musical collaboration in East Yorkshire has caught the attention ... player and singer Lou Duffy-Howard and Bridlington hurdy-gurdy player Quentin Budworth, have just released their ...

In 1874, in roughly the same place where Buffalo’s new train station is being built, a hurdy-gurdy man was putting on a show with his monkey at what was then Buffalo’s New York Central Train ...

If you’ve never heard a hurdy-gurdy before, you’re in for a treat. Not many people have, since they’re instruments which are uncommon outside of some eastern European communities.

It most likely first came about around the 11th century, in Europe or the Middle East. Whenever we hear a hurdy-gurdy playing, we just want to *ahem*... crank it up.

Hurdy Gurdy, the latest addition to the Dallas Farmers Market neighborhood, serves food, but it isn’t quite a restaurant. It serves coffee and alcohol, but it isn’t quite a cafe or bar ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The hurdy-gurdy is the duck-billed platypus of instruments. It has strings but you don’t pick or strum them.