About Whatever Happened to the Crumhorn?

Credit: Martin Agricola, 1532

Performers

Tony Millyard speaker


Many instruments from the medieval and renaissance period never made it into the modern orchestra – listen to Handel’s Messiah played on the crumhorn and rauschfife to find out why! Instrument maker Tony Millyard examines why some instruments survived while others fell by the wayside and discusses the endangerment of instrument-making in this country where so many traditional crafts are tragically disappearing.