Rebec/Fiddle

Notes on construction of a medieval fyddle and bow, based on illustrations and extant instruments.

Descriptions, photos, history, and sounds of instruments used in performing early music. Includes the bagpipe, bladder pipe, cornamuse, crumhorn, dulcian, dulcimer, gamba, gemshorn, harp, harpsichord, hirtenschalmei, hurdy-gurdy, kortholt, lizard, lute, mute cornett, organetto, percussion, pipe and tabor, psaltery, rackett, rauschpfeife, rebec, recorder, sacbut, schalmei, serpent, shawm, shofar, transverse flute, viol, and zink.

Very few musical instrument s have survived from the Middle Ages. In their efforts to recover how instrument s appeared, how they were constructe d and played, and what kind of sound they produced, Sine Nomine has turned to pictorial evidence.