Medieval instruments

Virtuoso players of historical instruments

Thanks to Brian Skilton for the photo

Instruments anti clockwise from bottom left:

 

English bagpipes, shawm, renaissance recorder, English bagpipes, hurdy gurdy, gothic harp, renaissance tabor and 3 hole pipe, cittern, citole, req, gemshorn and bendir.

HB flowers 02
HB flowers 02

Caliban’s Dream  
The Tempest, William Shakespeare

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked
I cried to dream again.

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