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Iraqi musician Nasir Shamma will perform Thursday evening a concert at Alexandria Innovation Center in which he will play for the first time a developed lute instrument that bears the name of the ...

With the Santa Claus parade just winding down, the Aurora Fiddle Dancers jigging up a storm at the Tree of Peace and other ...

Jozef van Wissem would like to open our ears to the gorgeous sonorities of the lute. But he feels his instrument has what he calls "a bad image: You stand under a balcony and serenade a lady, and then ...

Stories of falling head over heels for an instrument are not unusual. What is unusual is love at first sight — or sound — when that instrument is the theorbo. In fact, it was the combination of both ...

There are only a handful of lute makers in Canada — and four reside in British Columbia. Grant Tomlinson and Travis Carey are two of them, and they work side-by-side in a Vancouver workshop. Tomlinson ...

This giant bass lute can be over 6 feet long, typically has 14 or so strings and is characterised by it’s rich but clear sound, an ideal accompaniment to the human voice Towards the end of the 16th ...

Along with its brutal and complex medieval melee combat, one of the highlights of Mordhau is its lute. The string instrument of choice for many medieval bards, Mordhau’s lute lets players wander the ...