It’s a medieval torture device that was used – once upon a more primitive time – for publicly shaming bad musicians and other disturbers of the peace. The contraption, which is essentially a heavy ...

Medieval Crime Museum has many terrifying torture devices on display, including a stigma whistle designed to discipline poor performers. This is 'the stigma flute'. When you play the following movie, ...

Al Garrod, pictured left, said he hoped to play a replica goose bone flute as part of celebrations marking the opening of the new Magna Carta centre Fragments from a Norman goose bone flute found ...

KENT, ENGLAND—A fipple flute has been unearthed near the coast of southeastern England by researchers from Cotswold Archaeology who are investigating the site of a medieval building that may have been ...