Although lutes and harps are not my main area - I'm a wind player primarily (see other pages on this site accessible from the home page) I have a good working acquaintance with plucked instruments; I've played guitar since childhood and was the bass guitarist of the prog rock band Egg, a very long time ago! I had lessons on nyatiti with Ayub Ogada when he first came to England and have spent many happy hours acquiring skills on kora, which I performed for Christian Henson on his film Summer Heat. Strummed instruments like laouto and charango present few technical problems while saz and ngoni require a little more preparation.