More than 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci designed a completely new musical instrument ... The mind of the great renaissance genius didn't count on how noisy the machine would sound.

He has been researching these instruments for more than 20 years, and says one of the Cheremshanka mouth harps is still capable of making music ... like a flageolet, a Renaissance-era instrument ...

Take a musical journey back in time when Courtly Noyse brings music from the Renaissance — along with reproduction instruments of that era — to the Rancho Bernardo Library. Seating is limited ...

Occasionally, singers join the ensemble, floating above the instruments — an ethereal effect that lends a sense of timelessness to the music. Although based in the Renaissance, Diminuito can be ...

the great 17th-century painter of still lifes of musical instruments, and as a current running through my 2008 Met exhibition “Art and Love in Renaissance Italy.” I particularly love Cecilia ...

and by using their Renaissance-era instruments, it gave those known pop tunes an edge that sonically sits somewhere in between the comedic and more romantic music moments. Singer Anna of the North ...