Where pieces of wood come to life again!
Check our latest R&D project: http://vimeo.com/85653759
[ Update! Check how our ancient Greek lyres sound! Listen to our first recordings with virtuoso Lina Palera at https://soundcloud.com/luthieros-musicinstruments/sets/ancient-greek-lyres-recordings-by-the-lyre-20-project ]
Koumartzis familia is a musician's family, nurtured to respect and promote the musical heritage of Greece (both ancient and modern). With many professionals and amateur musicians among their members, we have decided to focus on producting top-quality musical instruments from our tradition and re-introducing them to the global market.
With R&D projects such as "The Lyre 2.0 Project" (check here: http://vimeo.com/85653759), we have managed to produce and make available top-quality stringed instruments and drums, which can be used by both a wanna-be and a professional musician.
We use almost exclusively natural materials such as wood (maple, ebony etc.), glues, animal bones and leather etc. to handcraft our instruments. Our workshop has been set up near Ancient Europos (Greece), where our ancestors were used to live and evolve in a full cultural environment. It is not an exaggeration when we say that the first ever humans that were called Europeans, were the ancient citizens of Europos. This unique heritage is crystal clear in our music instrument product line.
The "heart" of Luthieros Musical Instruments is the father of the family, Anastasios, an amateur musician (for more than 40 years), a best-selling author of how-to instrument making guides in Greek and a luthier (musical instrument handcrafter) for the last 10 years.
Along with his three sons and his wife, Eleni, have managed to create a product line of top quality musical instruments such as Ancient Greek Lyres, Ancient Egyptian Drums (Bendir), modern Greco-Turkish stringed instruments (Bouzouki, Baglamas, Tzouras) etc.
With a lot of handcrafting work and a shophisticated mechanised manufacturing method, we are able to produce beatifully handcrafted instruments with rich unique sound, and at a low cost for people who love music around the world.
We strongly believe that music is the intermediate for people to communicate, and so we are sworn to provide the tools to do it (i.e. music instruments that can be seen as unique artefacts).
