Although Portage wasn’t officially incorporated as a town until 1959, its rich history extends back to the 1830s, when early European settlers first came to the area. They first arrived with ...

“Lute gets up there, perfectly coiffed hair, that signature blue blazer and crisp white shirt and khakis, movie-star looks, and then he proceeds to talk about family and the importance of ...

The only instrument of the lute family now in use, however, is a shriveled and degenerate member, the mandolin, which is not taken seriously in modern art. Consequently the music written for the ...

Jared Katz is preparing for this month’s ‘Art in Tune’ when certain items in the museum’s extensive instrument collection can be both seen and heard For Boston Museum of Fine Arts curator ...

Sales of instruments featured on Stranger Things and Addams Family spin-off, Wednesday, sky-rocketed following their appearance on screen while purchases of a Scottish favorite plummeted.

EVROPOS, Greece, - 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 nine strings ...

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. Sign up here.

Here's a sampler of instruments in the lute family found at a recent Hummin' and Strummin' session at the Bluffton Public Library. Six string guitars predominate, but you'll find them in various sizes ...

On Friday, Ridgewood Elementary School in Rock Island dedicated a new instrument in its outdoor music lab to Barbara and Jon Sedgwick, the school's first principal. The Sedgwick family donated ...

a languages teacher who introduced some of his students to the instrument, which is actually part of the lute family. "It’s become difficult at the moment because of the ongoing conflict in ...