Workshop directed by Tim Bayley
Gloucester Cathedral, 21st April 2018
A whole day of playing ‘Loud Wind’ instruments: Shawms, Curtals, Cornetti, Sackbuts, Crumhorns; for some this would sound like hell, for others like heaven. When these instruments were first around the ability to produce any sound at all seemed wonderful, and tuning and playing musically went by the board at times. However, over the years people like Tim Bayley have shown us that tuning and playing musically were not only possible but achievable, and that these strange and wonderful instruments could produce a lovely sound playing splendid music.
– Fenella Spiers