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 ...

For everything it can do, though, the Medieval music box is worth it for one reason alone. It will put a hurdy gurdy in your hands even if you don’t know what kind of instrument that really is.

Naomi: But Ludwig, medieval church music didn’t use lutes - they didn’t use any instruments at all - just voices, singing beautiful music, 'a cappella' - which means unaccompanied, that means ...

Swedish tech company Teenage Engineering has developed a beat machine that allows users to create their own medieval ...

Whether this box of tricks will usher in a new age of medieval-inspired electronic music remains to be seen ... medieval sounds recorded by real medieval musicians on real medieval instruments’ to be ...