Been there with X -- now have a quad-boot system but mostly keep it in 9.1 (the only thing I've learned to do in linux is play games). And on my list of dreams is a whole set of music-related scenes. Got hung up on making a new set of stage props, tho, which are somewhere in the final rigging stages now. A hurdy-gurdy, eh? I can't recall one off-hand. Perhaps you could add the crank and drone strings to a modified lute? Not the world's simplest instrument. Wonderful sound, tho -- kind of like a strange mating of a 'cello and a bagpipe.