[Miss Marple]

I am unfamiliar with the instrument you are describing. I was, of course, referring to the organ-grinder's instrument. (Needless to say, I am not a musician.)

[AnAmericanMother]

Here's a diagram!

Some of them look like little lutes . . . others are just a box shape with strings inside.

The one my husband played at church is the box type. Believe our choirmaster made it from a kit.

Here is some music, a 15th century Italian dance, with a hurdy-gurdy providing the steady background buzzing note . . . pretty typical! (It does keep everybody on pitch.)

[Straight Vermonter]

If it didn't come through in my original post I was just trying to be funny.