String instrument strings, or play them by rolling the bell of a brass instrument such as a trombone on the array of strings. However, these are relatively rarely used special techniques. Other keyed string instruments, small enough for a strolling musician to play, include the plucked autoharp, the bowed nyckelharpa, and the hurdy-gurdy, which is played by cranking a rosined wheel. Steel-stringed instruments (such as the guitar, bass, violin, etc.) can be played using a magnetic field. An E-Bow is a small hand-held battery-powered device that magnetically excites the strings of an electric string instrument to provide a sustained, singing tone reminiscent
Hurdy Gurdy (film) end of the film. The other main character is the girl. She falls in love with Oswald and runs away with him at the end of the film. "Hurdy Gurdy" was reviewed by the cinema magazines at that time. "The Motion Picture News" said that the film includes "Good Sound Cartoonantics", and also said that the film developed "some good cartoon stunts". Hurdy Gurdy (film) Hurdy Gurdy is a 1929 animated short film which is presented by Carl Laemmle and was produced by Walter Lantz, who he and his wife would go on to make Woody Woodpecker. The film, which