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 ...

Ken Wryn's guitar teacher noticed that he responded more to music transcribed from old lute notations than tunes written for guitar. He lent Wryn his lute, but only for two weeks. After that, he told ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Molo is a three-stringed lute (a lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing ...

The sarod, a lute-like instrument widely used in folk music across Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh, has nearly fallen silent in Pakistan. The stringed instrument has featured in several ...

As a child, Sanubar Tursun was intrigued by the sounds of the dutar, a two-stringed lute that is characterized by its long neck and pear-shaped body, which her father loved playing at home. "The ...