Overview & Specifications
UGears Hurdy Gurdy Mechanical Model Kit
Description:
- Condition: 100% Brand New
- Brand: UGears
- Color: As picture show
- Level: intermediate
- Number of components: 292
- Assembly time: 4-5 hours
- The Ugears Hurdy-Gurdy is a fully fledged musical instrument
- A unique combination of good taste, wood and mechanics
- An awesome gift and smart hobby idea for your friends and family
- Model Approximate dimensions: 400mm x 165mm x 220mm(L x W x H)
Features:
- Recommended for ages 14 + years
- The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces a sound resembling one of a bagpipe by a hand-turned wheel rubbing against the strings working similarly to a violin and a fiddle bow
- The history of this instrument begins in the 15th century. One of the earliest forms of the hurdy-gurdy was the organistrum (a portable organ) in Medieval Europe
- After some modifications it became a common instrument among travelling musicians in England and went through its renaissance period in the later 17th-18th centuries as more of the noble class musical instrument for the amusement of the rich
- Those instruments were decorated by craftsmen with inlays and carving and had the built-in hurdy-gurdy mechanism into the guitar or lute body
- Some call the Hurdy-Gurdy music “a medieval rock’n’roll”, which we find pretty cool, It captured us and we decided to create the Ugears’ version of the Hurdy-Gurdy.
- Inspired by the art of medieval craftsmen, enriched by smart engineering of the XXI century and created by Ugears engineers’ collective imagination
- Richly detailed with an eye toward romance and artistry.