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
Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio museum is an homage to a remark by Taoiseach Seán Lemass, who asked an RTÉ radio controller in the 1950s "How's the hurdy gurdy?". The exhibition includes artefacts relating to all forms of communication and related Irish historical events, including radios, early televisions, gramophones, and records. The Morse code-based amateur radio station, EI0MAR, operates from the museum. The story of curator Herbert and the museum was the subject of a 10-minute award winning film in 2014, "Hurdy Gurdy Man". Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio is a museum of communication