Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Hurdy gurdys, lutes, and Gregorian chants are just some of the FX you can expect to find on this “medieval beat machine” Swedish electronics manufacturer Teenage Engineering has announced the release ...