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Re:Leonardo da Vinci's forgotten musical invention by leoc on Monday June 17, 2019 @05:19AM (#20201188)
Apparently the instrument is more like one of Hans Haiden's Geigenwerke than Leonardo's viola organista concept, though the two are similar. https://slippedisc.com/2013/11/leonardos-instrument-no-its-a... WP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_organista . See also the hurdy-gurdy (of course), the Wheelharp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2iMdvMN5U and the Gizmotron https://www.gizmotron.com/ .
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Re:Leonardo da Vinci's forgotten musical invention by no_identd on Monday June 17, 2019 @08:40PM (#20208780)
You forgot the nyckelharpa:

https://youtu.be/e7sK5OiJHHQ

Which kinda inverts all this in an entirely different way. Well, except for the wheelharp, the two sound very similar yet distinct.

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