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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tan says nacre, or mother-of-pearl, and animal bones are used as decorations on handmade violins. Photos: Andrew Tan Despite it being his first attempt at making a hurdy gurdy from scratch, Andrew Tan ...

Decked out in gold with Latin labelling, the EP-1320 Medieval arrives with an extensive bank of medieval-inspired samples that features farm animals, witches and "rowdy peasants" When you purchase ...

Hurdy gurdys, lutes, and Gregorian chants are just some of the FX you can expect to find on this “medieval beat machine” Swedish electronics manufacturer Teenage Engineering has announced the release ...