The yidaki, a 16th-century double bass and a South American flute: finding Australia’s oldest playable musical instrument

The first musical instrument to arrive with European colonisers in Australia was a piano made in 1780 – but there are older ones still being played ...
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European and American musical instruments

Stringed instruments. Liras and early violas ; The violin group ; Viols ; Viola d'amore, cither viol, baryton ; Trumpet marine ; Hurdy-gurdy ; Lutes ; Mandores ; Long ...
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Marvels of sound and beauty : Italian Baroque musical instruments / edited by Franca Falletti, Renato Meucci, Gabriele Rossi-Rognoni

Resounding beauties : the beauty of sound / Franca Falletti -- Mucial instrument collections in Renaissance and Baroque Italy / Renato Meucci -- Italian musical instruments in Europe : the dynamics of ...
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Musicians fume at flight rules for historic musical instruments

"It was spooky and I died ten thousand deaths," says musician Carolin Widmann, recalling a flight from Helsinki to Leipzig with a shudder. At the airport, on reaching the Lufthansa check-in counter, ...