Khaleej Times

Greek family keeps ancient instruments alive

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 that when plucked ...
Greek Reporter

The Adventurous Journey of an Ancient Greek Lyre

The lyre was the musical instrument that accompanied the education and entertainment of children and teenagers in Ancient ...
Hindustan Times

Family of musicians recreates ancient Greek sounds and instruments

Hymns sung to the Greek gods thousands of years ago resonated from ancient musical instruments in Athens on Thursday, transporting a transfixed audience to antiquity. The phorminx, the kitharis, the ...
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 ...
Hindustan Times

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

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 that ...
Dawn

‘Meeting with the past’, Greek family keeps ancient instruments alive

EVROPOS: 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 that when ...