PIFFARO delights audiences with highly polished re-creations of the rustic music of the peasantry and the elegant sounds of the official wind bands of the late-medieval and renaissance periods. Its ever-expanding instrumentarium includes shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, harps, and a variety of percussion — all careful reconstructions of instruments from the period. The group performs throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, and South America and recently was honored by the American Recorder Society with its Distinguished Achievement Award.