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One for the musicians (hey, I'm biased): everything you could possibly want to know about the hurdy-gurdy.

If you're wondering how I came across it, it's because Paul has lent me a CD of The four seasons arranged for recorder, violin, viola da gamba, guitar, harpsichord, musette (a sort of gentrified bagpipe) and yes, hurdy-gurdy - to say it sounds peculiar doesn't even begin to describe it. Anyhow, there's a bit during the first movement of Spring when the music goes into the minor, but there was still an unflattened third from the hurdy-gurdy which, as I've discovered, uses a drone and thus harmonics, ergo the clash.

Don't say my blog ain't educational ...