What intruments did troubadours play in medieval times?

Answer 1

Troubadours played different kinds of flute, including side blown wooden flutes, recorders and similar instruments, and an instrument called the gemshorn, which was like an ocarina, but was made from the horn of a goat.

They played a number of necked stringed instruments, including a variety of lutes, they also played instruments like guitars in Spain. There was a Byzantine lyra, which was shaped rather like a lute, but bowed, and there was the medieval fiddle.

In some places they played harps. In some places in Britain and Scandinavia, they played lyres, and these were sometimes played with a bow.

They had zithers of various kinds, including the psaltery and Dulcimer. They came to play the dulcimer with hammers, instead of plucking it, and the hammered dulcimer can be quite a lovely instrument.

Folk musicians played Bagpipes of various kinds during the Middle Ages. They also played drums of various kinds.

There were trumpets and horns, but I think troubadours did not get into them much. They included the cornetto, which was a type of horn with holes like a recorder and made of wood. They also included the sackbut, which was ancestral to the Trombone.