His 28-piece orchestra drones out Verdi’s melodies like possessed hurdy-gurdies. His tenors and sopranos bellow lustily. His triumphal scenes contain not only singers and ballet dancers but live ...

Cain produces and plays a variety of instruments on “Perverts,” including the uncommon, bowed-stringed hurdy gurdy. Multi-instrumentalists Matthew Tomasi of the band 9million, who also ...

If you’ve never heard a hurdy-gurdy before, you’re in for a treat. Not many people have, since they’re instruments which are uncommon outside of some eastern European communities.