{"id":149379,"date":"2025-07-06T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T03:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=149379"},"modified":"2025-07-06T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T03:28:09","slug":"muse-on-the-unique-sewing-gurdy-electronic-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/07\/06\/muse-on-the-unique-sewing-gurdy-electronic-instrument\/","title":{"rendered":"Muse On The Unique &#8216;Sewing-Gurdy&#8217; Electronic Instrument"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MUSE \/\/ New Born \/\/ Sewing-Gurdy Cover\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HM-qxcyzi4Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@SingerSoundSystem\">Singer Sound System<\/a> shared this take on <em>New Born<\/em> by <strong>Muse<\/strong>, arranged for the <strong>Sewing-Gurdy<\/strong>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Sewing-Gurdy<\/strong> is a unique electronic<span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\"> hurdy-gurdy, driven by a sewing machine pedal. The Sewing-Gurdy joins other hurdy-gurdy inspired instruments that we&#8217;ve featured, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2018\/10\/19\/hurdy-gurdy-midi-system-a-futuristic-take-on-an-ancient-instrument\/\">Hurdy Gurdy MIDI System<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/04\/27\/an-introduction-to-the-balfolk-boombox-synthy-gurdy\/\">Balfolk Boombox<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">They note that, &#8220;In this video, it&#8217;s just my instrument and a kick.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sewing-Gurdy is a unique electronic hurdy-gurdy, driven by a sewing machine pedal.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/07\/06\/muse-on-the-unique-sewing-gurdy-electronic-instrument\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Muse On The Unique &#8216;Sewing-Gurdy&#8217; Electronic Instrument<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,29],"tags":[3359,1337,9146,4011,35794],"class_list":["post-149379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-strange","tag-hurdy-gurdy","tag-strange-musical-instruments","tag-sunday-synth-jam","tag-synth-jam","tag-synthi-gurdy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/synth-gurdy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149436,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149379\/revisions\/149436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}