Video: Dude Shreds on a Hurdy Gurdy

MS reader Mike W. sent us the following video from This is Colossal of a dude playing the hurdy gurdy, an instrument with which you’re likely familiar only if you’re a regular Ren Faire attendee or a fan of Eluveitie. From Wikipedia:

The hurdy gurdy is a stringed instrument that produces sound by a crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a violin. Melodies are played on a keyboard that presses tangents—small wedges, typically made of wood—against one or more of the strings to change their pitch. Like most other acoustic stringed instruments, it has a sound board to make the vibration of the strings audible.

This video by Guilhem Desq starts off with some pretty standard hurdy gurdy fare, but takes a turn for the metal around the 2:00 mark. Mr. Desq, are you available for birthdays, Bar Mitzvahs and other engagements? Please get in touch with Neilstein, Rosenberg & Associates, LLC about providing live entertaining at our next drunken rager.