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 ...

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 ...

If most of us had to list the 40 most important guitars throughout history on the spot, hastily conjured entries might include (jokingly or not) the Guitar Hero control and the air guitar. While both ...

Oxford University in the UK has announced that researchers from that school and Germany’s University of Tübingen have determined the age on the world’s oldest musical instruments: a collection of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trying to escape the bitter cold of a Gumeracha winter, Julian Moore decided he needed an indoor hobby and soon found himself crafting dulcimers. An avid guitar player at the time, Mr Moore felt ...

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It was the “One” heard ’round the world, or at least by a reasonably large number of people on the internet. A little more than a year ago, the Belarus band Stary Olsa, who perform medieval music on ...