Instrumental music — typically played on stringed instruments like the lyre — was tuned with near-perfect harmonic precision, deliberately avoiding dissonance to produce a sound that was ...

[1/10]Replicas of ancient Greek lyres, lay on the production line, at the workshop of Danis Koumartzis in Evropos, northern Greece, November 18, 2024.

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.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr David Creese plays a song originally found on stone inscriptions from ancient Greece on an eight-string "canon" instrument ...

Dr David Creese plays a song originally found on stone inscriptions from ancient Greece on an eight-string "canon" instrument The music of ancient Greece, unheard for thousands of years, is being ...

Audio captionDr David Creese plays a song originally found on stone inscriptions from ancient Greece on an eight-string "canon" instrument The music of ancient Greece, unheard for thousands of ...

The crisp, bright sound of a stringed musical instrument that exists only in the artwork and lore of ancient Greece has finally been heard again – thanks to the number-crunching power of latter ...

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

Habib Wardack prefers another type of stringed instrument- one that’s been around since the 7th Century. Wardack first picked up a rubab when he was 8 years old. He’s considered a virtuoso.

The Society of the Ancient Instruments, whose recordings have long been treasured by chamber-music addicts, is a nonprofit labor of love. It is the creation of a little grey-maned, Dutch-born ...