Wind Instruments

A natural trumpet that superficially resembles those of Renaissance manuscripts and that can be played with a standard modern trumpet mouthpiece by someone of modest trumpet skill.

This is the year 1008, maybe 1010. A group of people is clearing the way towards what is today known as Isère. Women are accompanied by children; men at arms are riding their horses, while others are leading their pigs, goats and cows in a great fuss. They have put what they need to live in carts. This adventure will lead them to the wooded shores of Paladru Lake. Who are these farmer-knights?

An international music organization of amateur and professional brass musicians and scholars concerned with the entire range of early brass music, from Antiquity to the present.

There are several instruments or partial instruments that have been found in a Viking context. At this time, however, there is only one panpipe identified as being a Viking instrument. This was found at York (Jorvik). Unlike the cane pipes most of us are used to when we think of the word "panpipes," the York panpipe is one block of wood with holes in it.

Stories and songs, wind instruments, percussion instruments, and what they sounded like.

Some of the sports, games, music, verse, dancing, toys, and other pastimes of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. Despite the full agricultural year that most people faced, there was always time for folk to partake in games, challenges, tests of skill and general larking about.

A Viking-era syrinx found at York, which can still produce a five-note scale.