The art of lute making in Africa is a tradition passed down through generations. Craftsmen use indigenous woods and materials ...

A look at the history of the ancient Arabic ancestor of the guitar, the oud. Is it really the kind of all musical instruments? If so, what is the real reason?

But he had not played the rubab for more than three years out of fear of being overheard, until one December afternoon when ...

The lute’s cultural impact throughout the Dutch Golden Age can be compared to that of the piano in the 19th century. It was the universal instrument for solo music-making, as well as in ensembles and ...

Mcfeddy Simon, better known as Gindung, is on a mission to restore the two-stringed lute's place in the state's musical ...

Foreign listeners recognize familiar timbres - piano, violin, mandolin, Hawaiian slide guitar, Chinese lute (byat saun), concertina ... As more western instruments were folded into a Myanmar/Burmese ...

Bream often spoke of his research into Elizabethan music sparked by his love of the lute After studying piano ... the Julian Bream Consort a period-instrument ensemble with Bream as lutenist ...