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 ...

The lute is the most intimately expressive of musical instruments. A descendant of the lyre with which Orpheus mythically tamed the wild beasts, the lute returned to Europe more than a millennium ago ...

Call it lute ’n’ roll: Jimi Hendrix songs played on a 12-string, 16th-century acoustic instrument? David Rogers can do it. However, he’ll stick with the Rolling Stones, Tim Buckley, the Beatles and ...

The ruan, also known as ruanxian, dates back to the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC). It takes its name from Ruan Xian, a statesman ...

A rare, melodious twang was heard this week on U.S. airwaves. The twangs came from an instrument which legend says was invented by a son of Methuselah—the lute, an instrument resembling an archaic ...

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 ...

Almost a year after his $10,000 lute was smashed while in the care of Delta Airlines baggage handlers, Irondequoit's Christopher Wilke debuts his "new" instrument during a short set Friday at the ...

Fresh off his most recent Grammy award–it’s his 3rd–Paul O’Dette brings his Internationally acclaimed skills as a lutenist to ...