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• Pulling keys upward is cumbersome, so only slow tunes could be played on the organistrum.
• The organistrum had a single melody string and two drone strings, which ran over a common bridge, and a relatively small wheel.
• Later on, the " organistrum " was made smaller to let a single player both turn the crank and work the keys.
• Due to its size, the organistrum was played by two people, one of whom turned the crank while the other pulled the keys upward.
• The pitches on the organistrum were set according to Pythagorean temperament and the instrument was primarily used in monastic and church settings to accompany choral music.
• The " solo organistrum " was known from Spain and France, but was largely replaced by the " symphonia ", a small box-shaped version of the hurdy-gurdy with three strings and a diatonic keyboard.
• Generally considered the ancestor of all subsequent hurdy-gurdies, the organistrum differs substantially from later instruments in that it was played by two individuals : one turned the crank while the other pulled the keys upward to change the musical pitch of the melody strings.
• One of the earliest visual depictions of the organistrum is from the twelfth-century "'P髍tico da Gloria " ( Portal of Glory ) on the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain : it has a carving of two musicians playing an organistrum.
• One of the earliest visual depictions of the organistrum is from the twelfth-century "'P髍tico da Gloria " ( Portal of Glory ) on the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain : it has a carving of two musicians playing an organistrum.
• Abbot Odo of Cluny ( died 942 ) is supposed to have written a short description of the construction of the organistrum entitled " Quomodo organistrum construatur " ( How the Organistrum Is Made ), known through a much later copy, but its authenticity is very doubtful.
• Abbot Odo of Cluny ( died 942 ) is supposed to have written a short description of the construction of the organistrum entitled " Quomodo organistrum construatur " ( How the Organistrum Is Made ), known through a much later copy, but its authenticity is very doubtful.
• Abbot Odo of Cluny ( died 942 ) is supposed to have written a short description of the construction of the organistrum entitled " Quomodo organistrum construatur " ( How the Organistrum Is Made ), known through a much later copy, but its authenticity is very doubtful.
• The hurdy-gurdy is generally thought to have originated from fiddles in either Europe or the Middle East ( e . g ., the rebab instrument ) some time before the eleventh century A . D . One of the earliest forms of the hurdy-gurdy was the organistrum, a large instrument with a guitar-shaped body and a long neck in which the keys were set ( covering one diatonic octave ).