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Medieval instruments included the following:
- recorders and similar instruments
- side blown flutes rather like Irish flutes of today
- hornpipes
- shawms, which were rather like oboes
- crumhorns, which had double reeds but also a reed cap
- Bagpipes, of many types
- trumpets, without valves
- horns and bugles, also without valves
- cornetti, which were blown like horns but had holes like recorders, and were made of wood
- sackbuts, which were rather like trombones
- vihuela de mano, rather like a guitar
- lutes of various types
- vihuela de arco, a primitive fiddle shaped like a guitar
- medieval fiddles ancestral to the viola da gamba
- geige, or rebec, shaped like a small lute, but strung and bowed like a violin
- bowed lyres, such as the Welsh crwth or English crowd
- plucked dulcimers and similar zithers
- hammered dulcimers
- harps, both Gothic and Irish
- hurdy gurdy, stringed instruments based on the body of a guitar, fiddle, or lute, with the strings sounded by a rosined bow and played with a keyboard
- pipe organs of all sizes, including the portative, which was small enough to be carried and played by a person in a procession
- drums
- bells
- xylophones, but it seems only after the crusades
- the monochord, which had a single string and was used to demonstrate the physics of music
- tromba marina, a musical instrument derived from the monochord, played by bowing and touching nodes on the string to produce different pitches
I am probably missing a few.
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