Around 1900, there were about 20 hurdy-gurdies grinding away in Buffalo. By 1927, there were three. The city’s last organ grinder, Dominic Cocco was beloved and in demand in the 1940s.

It requires frequent tuning and maintenance; dust and heat are not its friends. “The street is hard on hurdy-gurdies,” Heller said. A detail of the hurdy-gurdy.

Ask Idahoans today what a hurdy-gurdy is, and most will have no idea. A few will probably know that a hurdy-gurdy was a kind of hand-cranked musical instrument popular in the 19th century.

Come 2 p.m. Sunday, the curbsides of Wisconsin Avenue will be aglow with wonderment as the Great Circus Parade trundles and hurdy-gurdies its way past. After an all-night campout to stake their ...

You can hear sounds of Tin Pan Alley, where as a teenager he worked as a song promoter; there are whiffs of Yiddish theatre, Spanish music, the hurdy-gurdies of the Lower East Side and, of course ...

Sarah Paulson earned acclaim for her small but meaty role as a villainous slave mistress in 12 Years a Slave.. What she didn’t know was that Vera Farmiga was among her fiercest competitors ...

This week on Dezeen, we explored 15 of the most interesting venues that will host the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028, including the recently opened Intuit Dome. Among the venues on the ...

In the world of rock and roll, instruments like shawms, hurdy-gurdies, mandolas and pennywhistles are far from the norm. And that’s something that suits Ritchie Blackmore and his spouse, Candice ...

Early next morning half a dozen hurdy-gurdies, as many hand organs, and various other instruments were making things lively directly under the window of Editor Bowles's sanctum.

Nancy Wilson has revealed the surprising reason she and her sister Ann walked out during a Led Zeppelin concert. The incident took place in 1969, when Nancy and Ann were just aspiring musicians.

Let The Hurdy Gurdies take you on a breathtaking tour of music’s greatest epoch. The band’s aim is clear: to blaze through this decade with such raw energy as to make you feel that you are hearing ...