# Caroline Phillips: Hurdy-gurdy for beginners

Caroline Phillips cranks out tunes on a seldom-heard folk instrument: the hurdy-gurdy, a.k.a. the wheel fiddle. A searching, Basque melody follows her fun lesson on its unique anatomy and 1,000-year history.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2010
- Runtime: 5 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science, History, Music
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/CarolinePhillips_2010G)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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