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 ...

Seattle’s Medieval Women’s Choir (MWC), the only large volunteer choral group in the U.S. and Europe dedicated to performing medieval music, rings in the holiday season with a program titled “Natus ...

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Click to view Stringed instruments are diverse in sound and design, but they all share the same basic shape. That similarity hadn’t really bugged anyone too much for the last few hundred years, but ...

You probably awoke today not knowing you live in the city "of the lute," a stringed instrument of medieval origins. "Duluth" means "of the lute" in French. This city's name speaks of an instrument ...