The sarinda has been passed on to Shah by his forefathers. “My instrument is more than 300 years old. My great grandfather Chhakan Shah Fakir received it from someone. I got it from my uncle who ...

The art of playing the bowed lute – sarinda – is dying. And Ijaz Sarhadi, the last patron from a family of Sarinda players, is struggling to keep the instrument alive in Pakistan. His ...

When Joseph Mayes heard the lute, it was love at first note. The Collingswood resident was studying with guitar master Andrés Segovia in Spain in 1968 when the music coming from the pear-shaped ...