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 ...
Yahoo

Museum shows there's more to Greek music than bouzoukis

A visitor looks at bells displayed at the Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments (MELMOKE) in Athens February 15, 2015. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis By Jeremy Gaunt ATHENS(Reuters) - Tucked away in ...
Chicago Tribune

Shout Out: Nick Antonoglu, a high school senior who plays traditional Greek music and the bouzouki instrument

Glenbrook South High School Senior Nick Antonoglu likes to play music, especially electric and acoustic guitar and a Greek instrument he inherited from his grandfather called a bouzouki. He’s also on ...
WBUR

A musician is redefining the sound of a Greek instrument

Legendary clarinetist Petroloukas Halkias and millennial laouto player Vasilis Kostas both hail from the same region of Greece — Epirus — and Halkias even played at Kostas’ parents’ wedding. But 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 ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

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

GREECE. SPARTAN AND INSTRUMENTS IN LOWELL IS OVERFLOWING. IT’S ALL THE HANDIWORK OF CHRIS PANTA, ZILLOW’S THIS IS A GREEK BOUZOUKI. I AM IN THE PROCESS OF DOING A TOTAL RESTORATION. HE REPAIRS AND ...