"Humstrum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... A musical instrument made of a mopstick, a bladder, and some packthread, thence also called a bladder and string, and hurdy gurdy; it is played on like a violin, which is sometimes ludicrously called a humstrum; sometimes, instead of a bladder, a ...
— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al. |
