“When I saw the hurdy-gurdy, it blew my mind,” says Peter Micholic. “It looked so alien compared to the other instruments I ...

I am a retired businessman, University of Wisconsin-Madison grad, and long-ago owner of a horse trained by D. Wayne Lukas. In 1986, I had a horse named Hurdy Gurdy Man ...

This is a symphonie, a simple box-shaped hurdy gurdy with four strings. You turn the handle to move the wheel against the strings, and press the keys to fret different notes. The instrument has two ...