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{{short description|Early western musical instrument}}
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[[File:Strohfiddel.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Dulcigurdy (lower left corner)]]
The '''vielle à roue et à manche''' (literally "Viola of the wheel and neck", called '''dulcigurdy''' by some luthiers) is a modern term for an early music instrument, of unknown original name, of the [[hurdy-gurdy]] family, but distinct in that the notes were changed by fingering the neck rather than pressing tangent keys.<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=3FfaldhH7g8C&pg=PA177 Music of the past, instruments and imagination: proceedings of the harmoniques International Congress]'', Lausanne 2004. Austria, Peter Lang, 2006.</ref>  The instrument has several strings which are constantly bowed by a spinning wheel turned by a crank, producing unbroken musical notes.
The instrument is attested on Plate XXII of [[Michael Praetorius|Praetorius]]' 1619 treatise [[Syntagma Musicum]].
The term ''dulcigurdy'' is a modern one, a [[portmanteau]] of ''[[Appalachian dulcimer]]'' and ''hurdy-gurdy''.  The instrument has also been mislabeled ''strohfiddel'' in modern times, since the caption at the bottom of Plate XXII uses this term (literally "straw fiddle"), but that term actually refers to the xylophone pictured next to the dulcigurdy.  Praetorius does not appear to give a specific name for the instrument, instead lumping it in with the keyed hurdy-gurdy next to it as ''Bauern-Lyren'' or "peasant lyres."
==Related instruments==
*The [[kaisatsuko]] is a modern experimental instrument in Japan very similar in concept to the dulcigurdy.
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