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Hurdy-gurdy Men, travelling musicians with hurdy-gurdies, who, in the 
19%%sup th/%  century, performed their music on public squares and in 
busy "thoroughfare houses" (Austrian house type with a 
public thoroughfare) in Vienna and other big towns. The first 
generation of hurdy-gurdy men were Italians, followed later mostly by 
disabled soldiers. In the course of time, they superseded the 
long-established harpists.


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