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Preferred term

Hurdy-gurdies  

Definition

  • Mechanically bowed portable chordophones having a set of melody and drone strings, a resin-coated wood wheel rotated by a crank to bow the strings, and a keyboard with tangents that bear on the melody strings when depressed [AAT]

Broader concept

Notation

  • 119980

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-TPFFXV1S-R

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