String instrument String instrument String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Musicians play some string instruments by plucking the strings with their fingers or a plectrum—and others by hitting the strings with a light wooden hammer or by rubbing the strings with a bow. In some keyboard instruments, such as the harpsichord, the musician presses a key that plucks the string. With bowed instruments, the player rubs the strings with a horsehair bow, causing them to vibrate. With a hurdy-gurdy, the musician operates
Hurdy Gurdy Man "singing songs of love". The song invokes "histories of ages past" with "unenlightened shadows cast" and the "crying of humanity" through "all eternity", and says tis then when the hurdy gurdy man comes singing songs of love". On his 1990 live album "The Classics Live" and in his autobiography, Donovan has said that there is also an additional verse that had been written by George Harrison that was not included on the radio single: When performing the song in concert, Donovan often relates to his audience the story of how this final verse came about. He played the song for