A mechanical string instrument from the Middle Ages that can still evoke chills today... With a few turns on a hurdy-gurdy’s hand crank, a rosined wheel sweeps against the instrument’s three main ...

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Archaeologists believe they have uncovered the remains of the earliest stringed instrument to be found so far in western Europe.

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“This is a very old design that one finds in the Welsh crwth,” Raszewski says, referring to an archaic type of bowed lyre, a string instrument, popular in medieval Europe.

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Archaeologists believe they have uncovered the remains of the earliest stringed instrument to be found so far in western Europe.