Chennai-based craftsman Tharun Sekar has revived the 2000-year-old Yazh, a forgotten Tamil harp, through deep research, ...

Crammed into the tiny upstairs of the small Northwest Iowa County Museum in 1980 was a collection of rare and historic ...

A powerful symbol. With their soft, ethereal tones, the harp, lyre and zither have long held a place in the collective ...

Laura Cannell: There were a few challenges: initially I had been learning to play a 12 string lap harp for ... The lyre was used as an accompaniment to the voice in the Viking and Anglo-Saxon eras, ...

I once asked a colleague who runs a concert series what came to mind when he thought of harp music. “A nothingburger,” he replied. I laughed, not because I was shocked but because I agreed.

Kouxian, or ancient jaw harp, is the earliest string instrument that has been found in China. By placing kouxian between the lips and tapping it with the fingers, the instrument can produce sounds ...

Resembling a harp or a large lyre, trapezium-shaped and about a metre tall, it has 10 strings -- traditionally made from sheep's intestines -- that symbolise the Ten Commandments. It is plucked with ...

Resembling a harp or a large lyre, trapezium-shaped and about a metre ... aspect” and founded a school to train students in the ancient instrument. It was his idea to play the begena in ...

Scheduled for 3:30 p.m., the program will also include harpist Lorna Govier playing a replica of an ancient lyre. The presentation is free and open to the public. Among the many tragedies of the ...

Resembling a harp or a large lyre, trapezium-shaped and about a metre ... aspect" and founded a school to train students in the ancient instrument. It was his idea to play the begena in retirement ...

Resembling a harp or a large lyre, trapezium-shaped and about a metre ... aspect" and founded a school to train students in the ancient instrument. The begena fell out of favour in the last ...

From India comes the incredible story of a young man who reconstructed an ‘extinct’ musical instrument using clues in ancient literature ... the Greek lyre or an antique harp from Burma.