手摇风琴是一件奇妙的乐器：它就像一个嗡嗡作响、回响不已、嗡嗡作响的音盒，由手摇木轮和一把琴键驱动。

它的声音可以轻快欢快，也可以萦绕心头，哀怨难忘；它可以用力演奏，让音符产生纯粹的冲击力，也可以用力放松，营造出更流畅、更细腻的效果。它复杂而自然，令人回味无穷。

它的工作原理是将涂有松香的木轮摩擦小提琴风格的琴弦，这些琴弦既有固定音高的持续音，也有可演奏的旋律弦，通常音高相差八度。有时，持续音也可以进行调音（例如，调到纯五度），为旋律添加开放和弦伴奏。

现实生活中的手摇风琴是一种单音乐器——除了持续音之外，每次只能演奏一个音符——但我们的手摇风琴可以遵循传统，也可以打破传统，根据个人喜好演奏和弦。

“效果”面板上有一个非常棒的混响效果，可以让你的声音更有层次感。此外，还有合唱、回声、旋转扬声器和放大器箱体模拟，方便你让手摇风琴体验吉他效果器板的音色。虽然效果可能不太真实，但很有趣！

手摇风琴是出了名的反复无常、难以掌控的乐器。它们演奏的音色根本不够纯净精准。事实上，手摇风琴演奏家们说，要演奏手摇风琴，你必须花两个小时来调音；然后再花一个小时来演奏……音准就跑偏了。

我们的 Hurdy Gurdy 也同样如此：我们几乎没有刻意掩饰其激动人心的不均匀和飘忽不定的声音特质（好吧，我们调整了最不走调的部分，但总的来说，您听到的仍然是货真价实的音色，包括所有瑕疵）。

手摇琴弦会引入音色和振幅的周期性变化，您可以使用键盘上的调制轮控制 Hurdy Gurdy 的音量，添加您自己的、更精准的变化。

The hurdy-gurdy is a marvellous thing: a thrumming, resonating, buzzing box of sound, driven by a hand-cranked wooden wheel and a fistful of keys.

It can sound brisk and cheerful or hauntingly plaintive; it can be driven hard to get a really raw attack to the notes, or eased back for a smoother and subtler effect. It’s complex and organic and wonderfully evocative.

It works by rubbing a rosined wooden wheel against violin-style strings, which include both fixed-pitch drones and playable melody strings, which are often tuned an octave apart. The drones can also sometimes be tuned (for example, to a perfect fifth) to add an open chordal accompaniment to the melody.

A real-life hurdy-gurdy is a monophonic instrument – one note at a time, apart from the drones – but with ours you can choose to follow tradition or break with it and play chords if you like.

On the Effects pane there’s a very nice Reverb to give your sound a bit of breathing space, plus Chorus, Echo, Rotary Speaker and Amp Cab simulations in case you want to put your hurdy-gurdy through the equivalent of a guitarist’s pedalboard. Not very authentic, but good fun!

Hurdy-gurdies are notoriously fickle and wayward instruments. They simply don’t do pristine and precise. In fact, hurdy-gurdy players say that to play the hurdy-gurdy, you must spend two hours tuning it; and then one hour playing it… out of tune.

Our Hurdy Gurdy is no different: we’ve made barely any attempt to disguise the excitingly uneven and erratic nature of the sound (okay, we tweaked the worst out-of-tune offenders, but generally what you get is the real deal, warts and all).

The hand-cranked strings introduce periodic variations of tone colour and amplitude, and you can add your own, more deliberate, variation by using the mod wheel on your keyboard to control Hurdy Gurdy’s volume.

支持系统：Windows MAC

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