Tobias Hume has been played on NTS shows including Okonkole Y Trompa , with Captaine Humes Musicall Humors (For The Leero Viole To Play Alone) (1605) first played on 15 June 2022.

Tobias Hume (1569?-1645) was an English composer, viol player, and soldier.

Little is known of his life. Some have suggested that he was born in 1569 because he was admitted to the London Charterhouse in 1629, a prerequisite to which was being at least sixty years old, though there is no certainty over this. He had made his living as a professional soldier, probably as a mercenary. He was an officer with the Swedish…