Musical Instruments of the World: How does an African lute compare to a Japanese shakuhachi flute? Travel the globe and listen to unique musical instruments from places like Asia and the Americas.

That similarity hadn’t really bugged anyone too much for the last few hundred years, but where most see variety Zoybar sees redundancy: they’ve proposed a modular, build-it-yourself guitar-ish ...

Guitar, piano, flute and violin are the staples of school music lessons. Rarely will a child come home with a medieval lute or one of its close cousins, the English theorbo or liuto attiorbato ...

CDs used are: Viola da Gamba (John Dornenburg) - Centaur CRC2713, Les Maitres de l’Organetto Florentin au XIVe Siecle (C.Deslignes et al) - Ricercar 206662, The Renaissance Lute (Ron McFarlane ...

One of the most evocative of instruments, the lute conjures up images of a time long gone, of courtly love and medieval intrigue. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you ...

The al'ud inspired the lute which became extremely popular in medieval courts. The lute had frets on its neck, to play specific notes according to Western European musical notation.

None have spoken to me as much as its latest project, a medieval-themed sampler board called the EP-1320. By the look and sound of it, it may offer the best opportunity to bring on-the-fly, on ...