This video is part of Andrew Lawrence-King's series of introductions to various Early Music instruments, released also on HIPster: [ Ссылка ]
The 'ordinary harp' of the early 17th-century is an extraordinary instrument, developed within a medieval aesthetic in the 1300s, encompassing the entire gamut of Renaissance music, and still heard three hundred years later amidst baroque multi-row harps. And its 'pleasant buzz' challenges our modern preconceptions of how a harp should sound.
You've seen all those beautiful renaissance angel-paintings, now you can hear that angelic buzz!
