set up

Instruments during the time:

group of oboes

ABOVE: A selection of oboe double reeds - two baroque, classical, classical oboe d'amore, modern oboe, mordern oboe d'amore, two cor anglais and bass oboe.

King David

ABOVE: This 13th-century illustration of King David shows him playing a harp whose arching neck terminates in an open-mouthed zoomphic head.

King David

ABOVE: Interior view of a harpsichord showing the jacks under the strings.
PIANO ACTION: In a grand piano the hammers strike the strings from underneath and fall back by gravity, the action being, therefore more responsive than in the upright piano, which has to rely on springs to return the hammers. For this reasons the quick repetition of notes on the grand piano is generally.

lute playing

ABOVE: Lutes were used from Medieval times all the way through to Boroque, during Renaissance the lutes were super important for secular music (lutes are like early guitars)