Yesterday, although a blistering, scorchng day, yes, I spent a surprising amount of it watching videos of the impossibly elegant, erudite, interesting, gifted, and wonderfully knowlegeable Brandon Acker discussing (and playing) various antique instruments, and other videos of him playing music from that era.
I had not known that he started out playing heavy metal, and only discovered antique instruments and antique music in college via a study of classical guitar; as
@lizkat would say, "go figure". A fascinating journey.
The instruments included (most had separate videos, but, for those who love this sort of stuff, and I do, and adore Baroque music, which I also do, and thrill to history - yes, tick that box, as well, the video of Brandon Acker with Rob Scallon on the history of the guitar was brilliant; I love watching a video where I learn stuff I hadn't known before), Renaissance guitar, Baroque guitar, Renaissance lute, Baroque lute, Harpischord, oud, viola da gamba, and the wonderful theorbo, an instrument - those bass notes - that I have quite lost my heart to.