TEDxTransmedia - Caroline Phillips - DAREtoHURDY-GURDY

California-born, French-resident entrepreneur and musician Caroline Phillips chose the Basque Country as her home. Besides learning and singing in the Basque language, she learned to play the hurdy-gurdy, a polyphonic instrument that is over 1,000 years old and was played throughout Europe — yet only a handful of people play it today. She performs the group Bidaia's compositions in world music festivals and concerts on her custom-made Hurdy-Gurdy and is currently recording Bidaia's new album "Agur Shiva". ( http://tinyurl.com/3a8jn64 )

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[WaterpigMaster]

@shockeyk I'd say that the organ and accordions were the true precursors to the modern synth. Some of the principles apply to the Gurdy too, but I wouldn't go as far as to say it was a precursor.

[andjack]

She forgot that there are two different types of Hurdy-Gurdy from Sweden. :)

[shockeyk]

I never knew that a Hurdy-Gurdy was an instrument, and such a versatile one at that. Clever and beautiful speech Caroline, great job! I'm intrigued about your inference that the HG was the precursor to the synthesizer, very cool.