What’s That Sound?: 8 Intriguing Early Musical Instruments: Quick Facts

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Painting by Gerard Terborch showing a woman in a white dress playing a theorbo for two men, one seated at a table with a book, the other standing behind him, with a dog in the background.

dulcian, or curtal

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