When musician Campbell Lovatt first heard a lute playing music from the renaissance period, a whole new musical world opened up to him.
"The sound captured me", he said.
"The sound of the instrument spoke to some distant part of my soul."
At a Wellington lute workshop he met fellow Hawke's Bay guitarist Steve Pickett who had experienced a similar epiphany.
They became a performance duo – Pickett and Lovett – with several renaissance instruments to choose from.
