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hurdy-gurdy
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synonyms: wheel fiddle, street organ, humstrum ???
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Definition:A stringed instrument that produces a droning sound by turning a handle that connects to a wheel that rubs against a rosined string, with a keyboard also used to alter the pitch of the string.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Then he went on to describe how, while they were having dinner, a man with a hurdy-gurdy had come into the yard with a little girl, who had danced and sung to the music.
Anton Chekhov. The Cook's Wedding and other Stories.
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if it be true that the loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own,
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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