What is a Hurdy-Gurdy?

Have you ever come across the word Hurdy-Gurdy? Last week I had a student starting a new piece on the RCM Violin Level Two Repertoire Book with this name: “Hurdy-Gurdy”. My student made a funny face! What was that? He never heard of that word before. I explained what it was and we watched aContinue reading “What is a Hurdy-Gurdy?”