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 ...
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 ...
Free Malaysia Today

Ancient Greek sounds transfix audience in Athens

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 ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Spartan Instruments in Lowell, Mass., makes, repairs, and re-creates ancient Greek instruments

ANCIENT GREECE. >> SPARTAN INSTRUMENTS IS OVERFLOWING. IT IS ALL THE HANDIWORK OF CHRIS. >> THIS IS A GREEK INSTRUMENT. I AM DOING A TOTAL RESTORATION. >> THE REPAIRS AND RESTORE STRING INSTRUMENTS IN ...
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Reviving ancient Greek instruments

How do you recreate the sound of something you only know through photographs and stories? It takes care, precision and a lot of research - something the Koumartzis family in northern Greece have ...
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 ...