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A powerful symbol. With their soft, ethereal tones, the harp, lyre and zither have long held a place in the collective ...

For many people, the use of the word medieval conjures up a time of extreme ... dominated this vibrant period of musical history. These instruments can be placed into families as follows; string, ...

The word “sinfonia” refers to baroque works for chamber orchestra but also to the old Italian term for a hurdy-gurdy, a medieval stringed instrument with constant, wheezing drones that are ...

One of the event’s highlights is Ellen Fullman’s Long String Instrument installation, with dozens of tuned wires stretched 50 or more feet. “Playing my instrument is like walking or swimming ...

Iconic instrument brand Gibson have teamed up with Queen legend Sir Brian May to release the limited-edition Brian May SJ-200 12-String acoustic ... June 9 30 Charming Medieval Cities You Can ...

Thus they showed the common late-medieval practice of playing or singing as the moment inspired. By the way, both Tindemans and Kammen drew remarkable nuance from these five-string instruments.

The Medieval period of music chronologically precedes the Renaissance ... The sound then was from a few wind instruments but mostly string instruments that were plucked or strummed accordingly. These ...

Mali is one of the world’s great musical cradles, and its sounds have been beguiling foreigners ever since the medieval explorer ... plucked and strummed stringed instruments like the kora ...

It also has a long history in Chinese musical instruments – so much so that the Mandarin term sizhu, which translates as “silk and bamboo”, refers to string and wind musical instruments.

The latest synthesiser features a “brand new arpeggiator and a collection of craftily captured multi-sampled instruments”, and comes with 96 MB worth of “pure medieval splendour”. “The line input and ...