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 ...

This weekend is the annual Lowell Folk Festival and local lauoto player Vasilis Kostas will be playing. The lauoto is an eight-string, long necked instrument also called the Greek lute. Kostas joined ...

Conveniently, every string instrument has an A string. So it makes sense for string orchestras to tune to the open A string of the first violinist. And as other families of instruments have joined the ...

Koumartzis, 41, is continuing a family tradition focusing on making replicas of ancient Greek musical instruments based on old images on frescoes and vases going back centuries.

No complete examples of the instrument – eponymously dubbed the epigonion – survive, but it’s known to have had 50 strings, like a harp. It also had a soundboard, like a guitar, but was… ...

NEEDHAM, Mass. — Chris Pantazelos of Spartan Instruments brings guitars, bouzoukis, ouds, and more back to life. He repairs and rebuilds string instruments in his studio in Lowell.

“Ancient Greek music, for me, is a way of initiation, I would say, a meeting with the past, and through it you can also open gates to the future.” Published in Dawn, November 29th, 2024 ...

"Ancient Greek music, for me, is a way of initiation, I would say, a meeting with the past, and through it you can also open gates to the future." This article was generated from an automated news ...