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 ...

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 public is invited to a free recital featuring Edward Martin playing the lute at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 2 in the College of St. Scholastica Music Hall, room 3625 of Tower Hall. The program ...

Apart from Renaissance fairs and Sting albums, the lute makes relatively few public appearances these days. And when it does grace a concert stage, it's generally in the service of centuries-old ...

LATEST musi-cal sensation in town: The Aguilar Lute Quartet. About a year ago, Senor Segovia arrived with his guitar and his footstool and became one of the ornaments of our concert halls. His manager ...