Joaquin Ayala of Winter Harp performs on a menagerie of strange musical instruments from medieval times, and none is more archaic than the monstrous organistrum. Grandfather of the hurdy-gurdy, with ...

New Orleans Musica Da Camera will play three free Christmas concerts around the region in 2014, bringing the sounds of Medieval and Renaissance music to churches in New Orleans, Algiers and the ...

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A mechanical string instrument from the Middle Ages that can still evoke chills today... With a few turns on a hurdy-gurdy’s hand crank, a rosined wheel sweeps against the instrument’s three main ...

Oh, to be a humble scriptorium monk, idling away my hours making the sickest liturgical beats. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I ...

Teenage Engineering calls its new digital music sequencer an instrumentalis electronicum, “the ultimate, and only, medieval beat machine.” I call it coolium thingamajignus because the EP-1320 embodies ...

Would you love to launch your own Middle Ages band but can’t find a lutist let alone a good hurdy gurdy player? First off, congratulations on knowing what a hurdy gurdy is (man). But second and more ...

A company has created what it says is the “world’s first electronic medieval instrument”. Teenage Engineering, a Swedish company known for making musical products played by musicians including Bon ...

One of the most evocative of instruments, the lute conjures up images of a time long gone, of courtly love and medieval intrigue. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can ...