Ancient and Early Music

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A community for Medieval and Renaissance-era music (as well as music before those periods).

Baroque music should be posted to [email protected]

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submitted 9 months ago by Zombiepirate to c/earlymusic

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[–] HonoraryMancunian 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are two notes being played at once? It has a lovely drone quality to it.

[–] Zombiepirate 2 points 9 months ago

I believe it's common on bowed string instruments to play a couple of strings at a time by using a shallower angle.

I wish I had time to learn one, they do sound amazing.