Our 'Full Monty' model now comes standard with a staved / rounded back.   This offers even more comfort while playing, and makes for a lighter weight instrument! The
result: more resonance and an instrument that tucks in comfortably against the player!

The folks who recorded the Witcher soundtrack (Netflix series) released a fun video of their process for one of the tunes (Using their Altarwind Hurdy Gurdy).   Check them out on youtube!

Hi friends:
In an effort to provide better service to our customers, and also to reduce the heavy demand on our metal working equipment, we are discontinuing sales of our metal tangents to non-Altarwind customers / instruments.

Over the past ten years, we have provided metal tangents to a number of European builders, as well as customers of other makers who wish to upgrade their instruments.  Thank you so much for the business over the years! We wish we could continue to provide these parts for you, but due to the complexity involved in constructing metal tangents, combined with limited number of milling machines, we are in a position of limiting this aspect of our business so as to better meet the needs of our customers.  We may revisit this in the future as we continue to expand our hurdy gurdy shop with additional equipment. 

If you own one of our hurdy gurdies, rest assured that we continue to provide any needed parts (metal tangents and all).  We will also continue to offer these superior mechanisms in all our instruments.  If you need to purchase metal tangents from us, be sure to have your serial# ready at the time of ordering.

We just finished a fun custom instrument in the shape of a Coffin!
Check out our newly updated 'Hurdy Gurdy Gallery'  (menu item: 'More Information')
for more pictures!

Hi everyone! We will be out of the woodshop Oct 26- November 6.  Because of our travels during that time, we will be away from the phone & computers (email).
We apologize in advance for the inconvenience.
We've got to travel and hear some LIVE 'gurdy music sometime, right?
We'll be back in November, to 'crank' out more hurdy gurdies!

They submitted this tune for the 'Tiny Desk' competition. Their energetic performance is infectious!   We wish them luck with their submission.

We just received these pictures from the current production of 'Shakespeare In Love'.  It's a hurdy gurdy world!  The play, which features our 'Merry Wood' hurdy gurdy, is still running through October. More details at
​ https://www.osfashland.org/productions/2017-plays/shakespeare-in-love.aspx

We crafted the hurdy gurdy for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, featured in this year's production of  'Shakespeare In Love' .  The show runs February through October.  If you're in the Ashland, Oregon area, you can find the full performance schedule on their website by following this link: 

​ https://www.osfashland.org/productions/2017-plays/shakespeare-in-love.aspx