While engaged in graduate studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in the cornetto, a Renaissance wind instrument that sounds like the blend of a trumpet and oboe, Nathaniel Cox decided to pick up a ...

This giant bass lute can be over 6 feet long, typically has 14 or so strings and is characterised by it’s rich but clear sound, an ideal accompaniment to the human voice Towards the end of the 16th ...

Les Voisins are performing in Whanganui next month. Photo / Supplied It is not often that we get to see and hear a theorbo — a Renaissance-era lute-like instrument but with a longer neck, and the ...

Most of the period instruments played by members of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra look perfectly familiar to modern audiences. The one likely exception is the theorbo, a 6-foot-long relative of ...

Pièces de théorbe, Movements: Piece in C minor Jakob Lindberg, Theorbo Pièces de théorbe, Movements: Piece in D minor Jakob Lindberg, Theorbo Pièces de théorbe, Movements: Piece in G Jakob Lindberg, ...

If you're anything like us, you'll be well aware of Rob Scallon and his talent for turning almost anything into heavy metal. In his most recent video, Rob turns his metallic fingers to the theorbo for ...