The other day I happened to see the video for Loreena McKennitt’s Mummer’s Dance (a hit somewhere around '97). She seems to have a taste for making silly videos. Anyway there are a lot of shots of her playing the music with a group of people surrounding her, and one of them has this thing I’ve never seen before.
It was a sort of boxy instrument, sitting on his lap, and while the front looked like a lute or mandolin, the side had a crank. He was grinding it as if was a hurdy-gurdy, only it didn’t look like one. What the heck was this thing?
