tudor instruments
The hurdy gurdy instrument is very high pitched. To make the music you need to spin a handle at the bottom it looks very old,it definitely looks like it from the tudor times.It is from the century it has some strings to make music on it as well some of these instruments have signs on them.
The hurdy–gurdy is a stringed instrument that produces sound by a hand crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. … Most hurdy–gurdies have multiple drone strings, which give a constant pitch accompaniment to the melody, resulting in a sound similar to that of bagpipes.
The lute is a plucked string instrument with a long neck bearing frets. The instrument is haracterized by a rounded body and a flat front that is shaped somewhat like a halved egg. Lutes have been used in a great variety of instrumental music from the Medieval to the late Baroque eras.
A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. More specifically, the term “lute” can refer to an instrument from the family of European lutes.
Pipe and tabor, three-holed fipple, or whistle, flute played along with a small snare drum. The player holds the pipe with his left hand, stopping the holes with the thumb and the first and second fingers; the other two fingers support the instrument. A scale is obtained by over blowing, using the second to the fourth harmonics; the gaps between the harmonics are filled by uncovering the finger holes. The tabor, suspended from the player’s left wrist or elbow, is beaten with the right hand to provide rhythmic accompaniment.Mention of the pipe and tabor first occurs in the Middle Ages, as an ensemble providing music for court dances. By the 17th century its popularity began to decline, and it survived primarily as a folk instrument. In Provence and Spain, where players of great virtuosity accompany regional dances, the tradition of playing remains unbroken. In England, where pipe and tabor playing was associated with the Morris dancers, the tradition was broken at the end of the 19th century; the 20th-century renewal of interest in English folk music stimulated a revival.