All right, this week on the members feed, we had a reading of a couple of those crazy Anselm letters.

And also, Dr. Z came into the studio and she walked me through medieval childhoods.

And the conversation was a bunch of fun and went on for over an hour.

Here's a short sample.

We also see musical instruments. And music was probably a little more prominent than it is today.

I consider it an elective. And we start later. But music again was foundational to a even

at toplevel education.

So you would have been handed musical instruments, people playing music was a much as like just evening entertainment.

So what does, was a much more common thing?

What's a good example of a childhood musical instrument?

They have little drums that we see.

We have, they have little symbols.

And little flutes was very common, like the penny whistle type flute. Right, right, right, right. And then presumably they would move up from there. But I mean, we give our children these things now with no expectation that they would learn. But because music was probably a much more everyday activity rather than we have

official musicians more now.

Right.

Those are the sort of things that you would probably learn to play an instrument and learn

music.

Same with singing.

Singing was a constant thing that people were doing.

Entertainment wasn't something that a class did like we have now.

It's something everyone is doing all the time for each other.

And so music education started young.

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