Instruments

The group has a large collection of beautiful instruments.  The particular instruments used in any one performance will depend on the repertoire in the programme.  Here is a selection of what an audience may see and hear in a Fires of Love concert.

14 course French theorbo made by Martin Haycock

(after Sellas)

(left) 6 course vihuela (made by Sacha Batov)

(middle) 4 course renaissance guitar

(right) 8 course renaissance lute (after Vendelio)

14 course archlute (after Sellas)

A  selection of  recorders at A440 and A415 from bass to garklein ( from makers including Kung, Fehr, Adler and Moeck) and (centre) a Loriman closed double-reed pipe.

(left) A415 alto recorder  in boxwood (made by Moeck after Jan Steenbergen of Amsterdam) and  (right) A415 bass recorder in maple ( made by Jehanne and Marguerite Dolmetsch based on an early 18th century model by Stanesby of London).

renaissance drums