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Lizzo might want to one-up James Madison’s 200-year old crystal flute with this even older flute — recently discovered by archaeologists across the pond. The rare medieval bone flute was unearthed in ...

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 female voice of aching purity begins the song a capella, reverberating as if coming from a cathedral choir loft as it climbs an octave, announcing: “centuriones convenerunt, sicut magi sacris nigris ...

Despite it being his first attempt at making a hurdy gurdy from scratch, Andrew Tan won the top prize at a competition recently, much to his own surprise. A hurdy gurdy is a medieval European ...