This is what you get when you watch Jimmy Page and Robert Plant on VH1 classics. A journey into instruments of folk music. Curiosity got the best of me and it's awesome!
If you haven't yet heard of it,
I present the Hurdy Gurdy:
dickstarr:
Haha, that's awesome!! Hurdy Gurdy is a great tune. Did you ever hear the Butthole Surfer's version of it? It rocked too, only the vocal effect was done digitally. 
teek:
I use to have a mild obsession with folk instruments. I always wanted an ocarina and a ud. I had a encyclodpeia computer program that played examples of about evey instument in the world. I thought it was the collest thing ever