A professional recording of the the famous "Ledbury lute" being played will help to raise funds for the Butcher's Row House Museum, where it is housed.
The CD will go on sale at the Church Lane venue during the next tourist season; meanwhile, over the winter period, the Ledbury and District Society, which runs the museum, has commissioned a new cabinet to display all of its collection of instruments, including the lute.
The lute, or "arch-cittern", was discovered by a lute expert who visited the museum in 2015 and recognised as a rare, even a unique survivor from the Regency period.
There is only one similar lute in the world, and that is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
It was the V&A which restored the lute for the Ledbury and District Civic Society.
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