{"id":5071,"date":"2013-11-19T10:56:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T18:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=5071"},"modified":"2013-11-19T10:56:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T18:56:39","slug":"the-biggest-hurdy-gurdy-ever-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/19\/the-biggest-hurdy-gurdy-ever-built\/","title":{"rendered":"the biggest hurdy gurdy ever built"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, that&#8217;s what <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/m.theage.com.au\/entertainment\/music\/leonardo-da-vincis-wacky-piano-is-heard-for-the-first-time-after-500-years-20131118-2xpqs.html\">this<\/a> is, more or less. Da Vinci took a hurdy gurdy and designed a huge one that goes all the way down to cello range, and set it up to be shaped like a harpsichord. He called it a &#8220;viola organista,&#8221; but it&#8217;s basically a giant hurdy gurdy.<\/p>\n<p>Da Vinci never built his design, but Slawomir Zubrzycki has:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sv3py3Ap8_Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s&#8230; pretty awesome, actually. ^_^<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, that&#8217;s what this is, more or less. Da Vinci took a hurdy gurdy and designed a huge one that goes all the way down to cello range, and set it up to be shaped like a harpsichord. He called it a &#8220;viola organista,&#8221; but it&#8217;s basically a giant hurdy gurdy. Da Vinci never built [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-coolness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}