I have a friend (Dennis Havlena) who works on Mackinaw Island, MI ~ in his spare time he builds musical instruments. He has plans for all of these instruments on his homepage (all free of course). I tried his hurdy gurdy that he build for arount $20 and it really sounds great. His homepage is: http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/ Hope you enjoy it as much as I have.