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Preferred term

Organistrums  

Definition

  • Large, fiddle-shaped, early form of the hurdy-gurdy, developed in 12th c. Europe, played set horizontally across two players' laps, one operating the tangents while the other turned the crank [AAT]

Broader concept

Notation

  • 119983

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-HN3P5HDH-K

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