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Spartan Instruments in Lowell, Mass., makes, repairs, and re-creates ancient Greek instruments

ANCIENT GREECE. >> SPARTAN INSTRUMENTS IS OVERFLOWING. IT IS ALL THE HANDIWORK OF CHRIS. >> THIS IS A GREEK INSTRUMENT. I AM DOING A TOTAL RESTORATION. >> THE REPAIRS AND RESTORE STRING INSTRUMENTS IN ...
Reuters

'Meeting with the past', Greek family keeps ancient instruments alive

EVROPOS, Greece, Nov 28 (Reuters) - In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching ...
New Scientist

Computer resurrects ancient Greek instrument

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-day ...
Las Vegas News on MSN

Musical instruments that nearly disappeared from history

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...
Time

Music: Ancient Instruments

Casually, like well-bred amateurs, the ten musicians adjusted lights and music racks, then began to play Handel’s Concerto Grosso in G Major. There was nothing casual, nothing amateurish about their ...
Greek Reporter

Lasus of Hermione: The Poet Who Revolutionized Ancient Greek Music

Even though his works have been lost in time, Lasus is remembered as an innovator and a revolutionary artistic figure. He is believed to be one of the main personalities who transformed the dithyramb, ...
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Spartan Instruments in Lowell, Mass., makes, repairs, and re-creates ancient Greek instruments

THROUGH HIS WORK, HE HAS RE-CREATED THE SOUNDS OF -- [INDISCERNIBLE] >> SPARTAN INSTRUMENTS IN LOWELL IS OVERFLOWING. >> I AM IN THE PROCESS OF DOING A TOTAL RESTORATION. >> HE REPAIRS AND RESTORES ...