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 ...

A rare, melodious twang was heard this week on U.S. airwaves. The twangs came from an instrument which legend says was invented by a son of Methuselah—the lute, an instrument resembling an archaic ...

A chitarrone is a kind of extended lute where it has bass strings, enormously long, connected to the basic lute body. How it’s used: It was an instrument that was invented for this music. It has no ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Aziz Sahmaoui is a virtuoso of the stringed instrument known as the gimbri — the main sound of the North African trance music known as gnawa. He’s also pretty darn good at playing the ngoni, a lute ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation this week has officially adopted a new rule allowing for the safe transport of instruments. Christopher Wilke's lute was crushed during a flight on Delta Airlines ...