Hurdy-Gurdy

The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces a sound resembling one of a bagpipe by a hand-turned wheel rubbing against the strings working similarly to a violin and a fiddle bow. The design of the Hurdy-Gurdy is based on the original prototype; therefore it includes the body, front and back decks, gears, crank (handle), wheel, neck, tuning pegs, or hitch-pins, strings, and a tangent box that altogether form a single beautiful instrument. This self-assembled mechanical musical model is super easy to play, creating sound as the hand-turned wheel rubs against the melody and bourdon strings.

The Hurdy-Gurdy tuning pegs have a gear reduction mechanism for finer sound tuning of the melody and bourdon strings. Also there are added the gear reduction mechanism into the crank (handle) to increase the number of wheel’s rotations and a special mechanism to adjust the height of both strings (melody and bourdon string) on the bridge and the beautiful planetary gear mechanism inside the body.