Clare Salaman is a British multi-instrumentalist and composer. Many of the instruments she plays date back to medieval times - among others she plays the hurdygurdy, nyckelharpa, Hardanger fiddle and ...

Have you ever seen a picture or painting of an instrument and thought, “What the heck is that?” Join us as we count down our top ten most weird and wonderful instruments. A shimmering, ethereal and ...

THE Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments will give the premiere performance of Sound House on Friday evening at the National Centre for Early Music in York. Devised and directed by Clare Salaman ...

Per Nørgård's Symphony No. 1 was completed in 1955. A few years earlier, the composer had written a fan letter to the elderly Sibelius – who was flattered to encounter a fellow musician with such a ...

This giant bass lute can be over 6 feet long, typically has 14 or so strings and is characterised by it’s rich but clear sound, an ideal accompaniment to the human voice Towards the end of the 16th ...

The urge to reinvent the norm and defy convention is intrinsic to electronic music's culture. Even at the very dawn of the electronic music age, inventors sought new and novel ways to use the ...