Iraqi musician Nasir Shamma will perform Thursday evening a concert at Alexandria Innovation Center in which he will play for the first time a developed lute instrument that bears the name of the ...

Dan Larson points to the wood of a lute under construction at Gamut Music. “It’s just a different sound,” said Larson. “Once you start playing a gut string, once it gets warmed up ...

Mcfeddy Simon, better known as Gindung, is on a mission to restore the two-stringed lute's place in the state's musical heritage ... why they did not want to play this instrument.