Hurdy-gurdy Hungarian lowlands, but was the normal term for the instrument on Csepel island directly south of Budapest. The equivalent names "ninera" and "niněra" are used in Slovakia and the Czech Republic respectively. In Russian and Ukrainian the instrument is called "wheel lyre" ("колёсная лира", "колісна ліра"). In Poland it is called "cranked lyre" (lira korbowa). "Leier", "lant", and related terms today are generally used to refer to members of the lute or lyre family, but historically had a broader range of meaning and were used for many types of stringed instruments. In her overview of the instrument's history, Palmer recorded
Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio is a museum of communication history based in the Martello tower in Howth, Dublin. The tower was built in 1805, one of the many towers built along the Irish coast to guard against a possible Napoleonic invasion, and has long been associated with the history of radio transmission in Ireland and beyond. From 1825, the tower was used by the Preventative Water Guard (now the Irish Coast Guard) in its anti-smuggling work. The tower was the terminus of the first telegraph connecting Wales to