Drejelire
{{Short description|String instrument with a keyboard}}
The drejelire is a string instrument with a keyboard,{{Cite book|title=Dansk ordbog for folket|last=Dahl|first=B.T. (Bendt Treschow)|publisher=[s.n.]|year=1907|location=Denmark|pages=591|via=HathiTrust}} specifically, a type of hurdy-gurdy that uses a rosined wheel to create sound.
The drejelire is made of wood. There is a crank at the bottom, which must be moved continuously to produce sounds, and key-like buttons on the side, which the player must press to obtain a correct pitch.
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- {{cite journal|title=On Violinists and Dance-Tunes among the Swedish Country-Population in Finland towards the Middle of the Nineteenth Century|first=Otto|last=Andersson|journal=Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft|volume=13|issue=1|date=October–December 1911|pages=107–114|quote=While in Sweden the hurdy-gurdy occupies the rank of a national instrument, like the kantele among the Finns, the Swedish country-population has not adopted either of these instruments, but has instead chosen the violin.|jstor=929299}}
- {{cite journal|quote=Mette Muller's initial essay on the folk musical instruments of Denmark and Scandinavia ("Folk - Folkelig - Folkelige musikinstrumenter i Danmark") circles around the central question of why Denmark did not develop a uniquely national instrument in the same way as Norway (hardingfele and langeleik), Finland (kantele), and Sweden (nyckelharpa and drejelire).|title=Folk og Kultur: Arbog for Dansk Etnologi og Folkemindevidenskab|first=Lanae H.|last=Isaacson|journal=Scandinavian Studies|volume=67.n1|date=Winter 1995|pages=142|issue=2}}
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Category:Swedish musical instruments
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