After that fascinating clip on the hurdy gurdy, this seemed appropriate:
the "tromba marina", a bowed string instrument that sounds remarkably
like a natural (valveless) trumpet:

  http://www.trombamarina.com/tm.htm

Be certain to click on the blue links to sound files.  The page (and
the site it's attached to) are excellent.

Eric Stott
Albany, New York

 [ While searching for information about Kate Buehler-McWilliams,
 [ "builder of medieval fiddles and champion of the tromba marina"
 [ (she's from St. Paul, Minnesota), I came upon a web page listing
 [ abstracts of intriguing papers presented at the Conference on
 [ Musical Instruments of August, 2003, a joint meeting of the
 [ Galpin Society and the American Musical Instrument Society:
 [   http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/euchmi/galpin/gxkta.html
 [ More of Kate's interesting antique instrument investigations at
 [   http://www.trombamarina.com/unprofitable_instruments.htm
 [   http://www.trombamarina.com/gittern/Citole%20page.htm
 [ -- Robbie