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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 ...

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 ...

Medieval music opens a window into history, culture, and creativity for today’s learners. Using authentic sounds, instruments, and context, educators can make the Middle Ages vivid and relatable.

Want to use medieval musical instruments in compositions for horror and fantasy movies? Orchestral Tools' latest library, the wonderfully named Grimm with Bleeding Fingers, has you covered. Grimm with ...

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 ...