Mystery Musical Instrument?
Category: Music...
Posted Sunday, February 29, 2004 at 08:43 PM [GMT-6]

So, what's that strange musical instrument that Sting is, um, playing during his duet with Alison Krause on the Academy Awards?

About the size of a mandolin, it had a crank on one end, which he turned continuously, and a pitch control on the other, and it produced a hauntingly beautiful sound, like a bagpipe with manners.

Any clues?

Update - 2004-03-01: Denise left a comment on another post informing me that the mystery instrument is a hurdy-gurdy. (Anyone else remember Donovan's song from the 60s entitled "The Hurdy-Gurdy Man"? Anyone, that is, besides Dawn?) You can get your hurdy-gurdy fix here.

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