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 of various pieces of music played both on their computer models of the instrument and on reconstructions. It has a really beautiful sound.
(Thanks to @stuartweber, who twittered about the article, and to @baryla for finding the sample page!)