My #rebec is finished!
Vibrating string length 29.5cm (3/4 violin). Strings are Aquila F-Red superior tension, G-D-A.

Materials used: maple, spruce, amaranth, ebony.

#earlymusic #luthier #violinmaking #violin #woodworking #instrument #music

Current project: a medieval #rebec

#woodworking #luthier #earlymusic #worldmusic

Something for #StCeciliasDay
Detail from an #15thCentury Italian choirbook showing an illuminated letter C with #StCecilia playing the psaltery, with other female musicians playing #lute & #rebec.
V&A Museum
#otd #onthisday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #renaissance
#histodon #histodons @earlymodern @earlymusic @histodons @histodon

The #epitaph of the #blind #musician and #composer Conrad #Paumann who died #onthisday in 1473.
From the #Frauenkirche in #Munich.
#earlymusic #harp #lute #organ #medieval #renaissance #music #rebec #musicalinstruments #15thCentury #fifteenthcentury #otd #onthisdayinhistory
@histodons #histodons #histodon

#Concert à la Cité de la musique, Paris, 20/11/2022
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Ensemble Hespèrion XXI
Jordi #Savall, #rebec, #vièle d'archet, direction
Bestiaire et symboles du divin: musiques du #Codex Las Huelgas (12e-14e siècle)
Le sentiment de voir naître la #polyphonie sous nos yeux! Des pièces largement monophoniques alternant avec d'autres encore timides dans l'entrelacement des voix, et de véritables explosions polyphoniques, notamment de flamboyants "amens"...
#arsantiqua #earlymusic