Possible Clues:

• Strummed for a minstrel, say
• Sealed with clay
• What certain rioting Elizabethan musicians did?
• Pilfered a string instrument?
• Played an Elizabethan instrument
• Worked a Renaissance Faire, maybe
• Played some dulcet tones
• Performed as a minstrel, maybe
• Played an old instrument
• Grooved without lid, then sealed with clay