Immortalised in Samuel Pepys’s diaries, strangely favoured by nuns, but today a curiosity – meet the mysterious and magical tromba marina On 24 October 1667, Samuel Pepys, arriving in Charing Cross ...
This is the Tromba Marina – an instrument that was popular in medieval and Renaissance Europe and which sounds like literally nothing else we’ve ever heard The ‘marine trumpet’ has one long, thick ...