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Stary Olsa – Medieval Classic Rock! – Metallica, Beatles and Deep Purple played with Medieval Instruments

Stary Olsa is a medieval band from Minsk, Belarus that has played throughout Europe. As an experiment they have played classic rock songs by Metallica, Deep Purple or The Beatles using their medieval instruments – and they had a big success with their performances and their youtube videos. Now thay have just started a kickstarter …

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The English Guittar or Cittern – A popular Plucked String Instrument of the 18th Century

I am currently reading about the history of the English Guitar or Guittar, a kind of Cittern. Some time ago I have written a post about this instrument in my German blog www.gezupftes.de. The guittar was developed after 1753 in Great Britain. According to the very detailed paper by Jürgen Kloss it has first been …

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