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Examples
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I'm not for sale like some kind of hurdy-gurdy girl. "
Gabriel's Lady Seymour, Ana 1996
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Of course, Page and Plant had a backing band — that included a hurdy gurdy player and a mandolin player who also chipped in on bodhrán.
Midweek Music Moment: No Quarter: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Unledded « A Progressive on the Prairie 2009
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I remember the bright lights and swirling, stomach-churning rides, the sounds of the hurdy-gurdy barrel organ competing with pop music blaring out from the rides, showmen shouting their wares, the roar of motorbikes on the wall of death, and the wail of the ghost train.
Country diary: East Yorkshire Rosemary Roach 2010
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Of course, Page and Plant had a backing band — that included a hurdy gurdy [4] player and a mandolin player who also chipped in on bodhrán [5].
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They have a ridiculously tall singer named Win and some members play uber-quirky, ironic instruments like the glockenspiel and the xylophone and even the hurdy-gurdy -- which I had to look up to see what it was -- and many appear to wear thrift-store clothes and sport appropriate indie-approved beards, making them look gangly and sexy and silly, all at once ....
Mark Morford: Forgive Me, I Do Not Like The Arcade Fire Mark Morford 2010
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Will you please turn off your hurdy-gurdy for five minutes?
Global Voices in English » Georgia, Russia: Cyber Attacks on Blogger ‘Cyxymu’ 2009
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I don't know where Chase's cash comes from but I know that he's forty-six, plays the hurdy gurdy, and is allergic to peanuts.
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Both Butler and his wife, Régine Chassagne, who writes, sings, drums and plays an array of arcane instruments, including the hurdy-gurdy, lost relatives in the year preceding the album's release.
Arcade Fire: 'The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to us' Sean O 2010
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The spooky hurdy-gurdy music on the chapter breaks is also a nice flourish.
Boing Boing 2008
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The plot of Carl Zeller's "Der Obersteiger" ( "The Foreman") is utterly incoherent; and the title character, whose name is Martin (tenor Bernhard Berchtold), is so unsympathetic that it scarcely matters when he goes from rabble-rouser to impoverished band director to a hurdy-gurdy man who has lost everything.
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