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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Paul O'Dette made the leap from being a teen in a rock band playing Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin to being today a renowned player of an Early Music instrument. O'Dette plays ...

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 ...

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 ...

Galvin Recital Hall will soon transcend time and become a 16th century French court — minus the wigs and corsets. Alongside the troupe of performers, the audience will travel across centuries in the ...

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 ...

'I’ve been a lute player for nearly three decades. When I first encountered the instrument I thought it was 'the' lute, and had no idea that there would be so many shapes, sizes and tunings to get to ...

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 ...