The San Francisco Early Music Society in collaboration with the Port Townsend Early Music Summer Workshops present
Phil and Gayle Neuman: Uncommon Early Instruments—A Virtual Tour
Learn all about and play along with a delightful selection of unusual early instruments of the Medieval and Renaissance periods from instrument builder-musicians Phil and Gayle Neuman. The duo will discuss how the various wind and stringed instruments were researched and built, and then you will be invited to listen and play along with
them live in real time. Instruments will include medieval recorders, vielle, douçaines, bass rebec, carnival whistles, bassanelli, rackett, tartold, serpent and more. Composers will include Johannes Simon de Haspre, Pierre de la Rue, Pierre Certon, and John Playford, with music provided.
Please visit sfems.org for the full summer calendar and livestream concerts.