(Sorry, couldn’t resist it.)
It’s taken a year to get round to it, but finally I’ve managed to rent a bass viola da gamba and arrange lessons:
One lesson so far, with Liam Byrne; it’s both easier and harder than I was expecting. Easier because the tuning and the frets feel familiar from my teenage years [...]
Something (very) pre-Baroque:
Powerful grid computing has revived a stringed musical instrument that was last played in ancient Greece, Italian researchers announced at a recent conference in Catania, Sicily.
Called an epigonion after the 6th century B.C. musician Epigonus of Ambracia, the instrument was somewhat similar to a modern harp.
The researchers’ website has a page with samples [...]