The African lute, called the ngoni, xalam, or kora depending on the region and culture, has a rich history dating back ...

It’s not known if John Dowland wrote his own texts, but the received wisdom is that there is a high probability he did so.

a long-forgotten musical instrument from Sabah state in Malaysian Borneo, where the gentle, ethereal twang of the two-stringed lute is held in the memory of only the oldest villagers. It was in ...

I’m ready to play some marvellous medieval music …I’ve even brought a lute! Naomi: But Ludwig, medieval church music didn’t use lutes - they didn’t use any instruments at all - just ...

“When I saw the hurdy-gurdy, it blew my mind,” says Peter Micholic. “It looked so alien compared to the other instruments I was familiar with, and I couldn't believe that such a mechanically ...

Made of dried mulberry wood and often inlaid with mother-of-pearl, the lute-like rubab is one of the oldest instruments in the region, its twanging sound stretching back thousands of years.

He proceeded to build copies of every musical instrument dating from the 15th to the 18th centuries, including the viol, lute, recorder and early keyboard instruments. In 1918 he built his first ...