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Music from the 16th and 17th centuries for viols, lute and voice will be played at All Saints Church in East Meon on July 11 ...

Amid the Truong Son mountains, artisan Ho Van Vat, better known as Pa Hoi, spends decades tuning traditional lutes and ...

I tell strange stories from music history, and offer up words of advice for your next romantic rendezvous. The guitar—as well as its predecessor, the lute—is the instrument of seducers. This isn’t a ...

The lute is the most intimately expressive of musical instruments. A descendant of the lyre with which Orpheus mythically tamed the wild beasts, the lute returned to Europe more than a millennium ago ...

Upon hearing this terrific release for the first time, I remarked to a friend that it could easily have been titled ‘Jakobean Lute Music’. Because, apart from its being an excellent survey of ...

When Joseph Mayes heard the lute, it was love at first note. The Collingswood resident was studying with guitar master Andrés Segovia in Spain in 1968 when the music coming from the pear-shaped ...

Talk about having a penchant for "the oldies." When talking about old music, many people refer to the 1950s, '60s and '70s. But when Lakeside resident and lute player Edward Martin talks about old ...

The Dutch ex-punk and Jim Jarmusch bandmate talks about his passion to free up a hidebound repertoire and make its strings ‘a real pop instrument’ Nobody can accuse Jozef Van Wissem of doing things by ...