Few Finns play the bowed lyre, or jouhikko, an instrument whose roots stretch back thousands of years. For Tytti Metsä, its ...
When it comes to string instruments, guitars are passé, mandolins are too hip, and banjos…no thanks. Listeners of discernment choose an ancient Mesopotamian lyre. Fortunately, lyre-of-ur.com is here ...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppgxf https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppgxf.3 Thanks mostly to Horace, some of the spirit and much of the letter ...
Posts on Hackaday sometimes trend a little bit retro, but rarely do we cover hacks that reach back into the Bronze Age. Still, when musician [Peter Pringle] put out a video detailing how he replicated ...