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"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 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 ...
[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.
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 ...
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.
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 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 ...
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 ...