Musician Plays a Unique Electro-Acoustic Hurdy Gurdy Powered by a Singer Sewing Machine

French musician Gabriel Bonnin absolutely shreds original songs and covers on a unique hurdy gurdy that he combined with a Singer sewing machine motor to give the traditional instrument quite a bit more power and four microphones to give it a large sound.

My instrument is an electro-acoustic hurdy-gurdy. I just removed the crank and use a Singer machine to drive it :-) It is equipped with four integrated microphones that allow me to process the sound live, especially in Ableton Live.

His covers include songs by Daft Punk, The Rolling Stones, and others.

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The Instrument Is Constantly Being Improved

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Bonnin Also Performs Live in the band POOLIDOR

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via The Awesomer