That's one of the coolest instruments I've even seen. I knew about it because I did my deep dive into luthierie. It's part violin, part piano, part machine and lot more things. Talk about multitasking while playing. That must be a tough one to play.
The other guys were having a blast with their performance. We call those kind of groups retretas and they consist of percussion instruments and wind instruments just like that one. I guess that were they come from. Really nice ticket to the past. I came back to drop this comment. 👀😃
This is indeed a fusion of a few instruments, as you say piano, violin, he also mentioned the guitar while explaining, a machine... Yes, like a machine. Although there are keys, so maybe it would be familiar to my fingers I didn't even ask to try to play it hahaha, I was afraid I would brake it or something. 😂
Thanks for letting me know about the name of the group of musicians that you have there, I checked now it. Haha, good you could come back and write this comment, 😂 this was funny!!
I am grateful for your presence here 🙌 {hope that after making the promised piano 😜 you can try to build a hurdy-gurdy too :D}
Building something like that is like making a machine. Maybe I'll try after I've learned more about other instruments. I think the hurdy-gurdy is the ancestor or accordions and other mechanical instruments. Maybe even the piano is one of its offsprings.
There are many mechanisms involved in it's functioning. I would've picked it up and had look at all the moving parts, but I wouldn't have tried to play it. For the same reason, something might break and it wouldn't be fun.