THE BEGINNING OF THE MEDIEVAL WIND BAND
Through available writings it has become apparent that traveling poets and musicians known as jongleurs or minstrels were a key element in medieval instrumental music. The jongleurs (the literal meaning is French for jugglers) were vagabonds whose somewhat unsavory lifestyles and music were often looked down upon by society as a whole.3 As a rule, today's classically trained musicians are specialists on one instrument, but musicians during this time were required to be adept at a variety of skills, not all of them musical, in order to be as marketable as possible: