You probably awoke today not knowing you live in the city "of the lute," a stringed instrument of medieval origins. "Duluth" means "of the lute" in French. This city's name speaks of an instrument ...

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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 ...

I tell strange stories from music history, and offer up words of advice for your next romantic rendezvous. The guitar—as well as its predecessor, the lute—is the instrument of seducers. This isn’t a ...

Call it lute ’n’ roll: Jimi Hendrix songs played on a 12-string, 16th-century acoustic instrument? David Rogers can do it. However, he’ll stick with the Rolling Stones, Tim Buckley, the Beatles and ...

Larry Brown likes lutes. He's probably made more of them than anyone in the history of lute making since the Renaissance, around 1,300 or so. He also makes violins, violas, reproductions of antique ...

Click to open image viewer. The Molo is a three-stringed lute (a lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. The Molo is a three-stringed lute (a lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening ...