In Greek music, the laouto is usually considered accompaniment for the clarinet or violin. Vasilis Kostas learned to play the eight-string instrument while getting his master's at Berklee and has ...

"Scientists Reconstruct An Ancient Greek Musical Instrument, The Epigonion." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 9 March 2009. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 03 / 090305080734.htm>.

In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching nine strings that when plucked ...

Archaeologists think it is part of the bridge of a lyre, a stringed instrument used in Greek classical era. It is believed to be 2,300 years old.