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Ettore Castagna, anthropologist, musician and researcher, has been working on the lyre of Calabria since 1980. A pupil of the last masters of the peasant and pastoral world, he re-proposes, between philology and personal reworking, the most ancient ways of playing this instrument. The lyre, the Byzantine violin, is a bowed string instrument widespread throughout the territory of the old Eastern Empire.
Ettore Castagna, an anthropologist, musician and researcher, has been working on the lyre of Calabria since 1980. A pupil of the last masters of the peasant and pastoral world, he re-proposes, between philology and personal reworking, the most ancient modes of suonare on this instrument. The lyre, the Byzantine violin, is a bowed string instrument widespread throughout the territory of the old Eastern Empire.
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