Each string and chord group is numbered ... Other names sometimes encountered include Banjolin and Hawaiian Art Violin. Ukelin-type instruments were usually sold by door-to-door commission salesmen, ...

The five-piece ensemble — celebrating its 30th year — is performing a Día de Muertos concert at Dominican University this ...

Scanning string instruments is his latest project ... “This is made out of what is already a nearly exhausted type of British sycamore, which was quite common in furniture making in the Victorian and ...

And, in the process of making new sounds, new instruments have been created as ... percussive sound created when the string hits the fretboard. Closely related to the European double bass, the ...

Of course, it's not just the type of wedding that displays string quartets ... especially if your wedding is outside. “Many of the string instruments in a quartet are very expensive and can be ...

This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

In ancient Greece, music education was as important as philosophy in cultivating young people's souls, perceiving both ...

Photo courtesy Michael Simmons. Frank Ford, the co-founder of Gryphon Stringed Instruments and a beloved member of the Palo Alto musicians’ community, died after a brief illness on Sunday ...

The lyre was the musical instrument that accompanied the education and entertainment of children and teenagers in Ancient Greece ...

Erreci Architecture provided window and door frames for the restoration project of Palazzo Stauffer in Cremona, designed by ...

You’ve might have already heard his voice on the Alabama Public Radio airwaves on Saturday nights alongside string ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played ... how musicians play the eight different types of instrument, and their history.