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...But he also sent his son to Koran courses and give him a saz, the long-necked lute that is the backbone of Turkish folk music....
...Last year, it mulled over the future of many objects, ranging from 17th-century Italian and French lute sheet music to Sheffield football club’s archive....
...As John O’Ceallaigh, director of luxury travel consultancy LUTE, says: “A lot of the travel restrictions have become a smokescreen for governments’ failings at home....
...Allen started as a lute maker but was drawn to the more gregarious hurdy-gurdy, which is far more challenging to make....
...Morandi fretted that he had none; Magnani set off for Venice, returning with a Renaissance lute, two Indian flutes and other curiosities....
...“My small ensemble will have two recorders, two viols and three lutes, so balance might be a problem....
...It’s not just the famous, immediately recognisable faces — the Queen, Paul McCartney, Kelly Holmes — before whom the crowds stop and stare....
...He heard 19-year-old Lady Isabella Thynne, daughter of the Earl of Holland, playing her lute there delightfully....
...Ever since it was formed by the lute player Elizabeth Kenny, this early music ensemble has made an asset of obscurity. Its focus is rarefied music of the 17th century....
...The wave of affection reflects more than simple high regard for Mr Shamma, a 47-year-old master of the oud, a pear-shaped stringed instrument from the same family as the European lute....
...The success of this combo (homemade guitars, a boy playing a stringed-milk-tin lute, a paraplegic dancer) is celebrated in Benda Bilili!....
...Paul Gauguin: The Breakthrough into Modernity continues until June 6....
...There are some actors so handsome that directors can’t help but cast them in order to have them beaten up (Paul Newman, for example, was perpetually wiping blood from his nose)....
...“Fairies are beauty, light and good energy,” he says as we dine in his cousin’s hotel, Gamirasu, while musicians play long-necked lutes. “People believe in them still....
...So you would have had Elgar, Paul Robeson and all these African guys wandering around this industrial estate!”...
...about the pittance coming in from the lodgers, nothing to do of a lonely evening but gaze at her sad, mad, dead brother-in-law’s worthless “Potato Eaters” over the tiny fireplace, and his unreliable friend Paul...
...Grim-faced parents hauled three-wheeler buggies like artillerymen trudging through a Paul Nash painting of the Western Front....
...For sheer introspective beauty, Paul Bley’s solo piano album Homage to Carla (Owl) recorded in 1992 has rarely been equalled. 6 & 7....
...Bunches of dried herbs hang from the ceiling; a lute strums; there is a faint whiff of cinnamon in the air....
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