Remember, as a kid, how you annoyed your family by running ... unloading all those amazing instruments to document one of today's finest — and friendliest — percussion ensembles.

While there are arrangements of pieces by Bach or Chopin arranged for percussion, many of the instruments’ core works were composed only in the past 40 to 50 years. Several pieces were composed for ...

Koumartzis, 41, is continuing a family tradition focusing on making replicas of ancient Greek musical instruments based on old images on frescoes and vases going back centuries. Sign up here.

Most of the metal instruments belong to the percussion family in the modern Chinese orchestra. Chime bells, or bianzhong, and gongs are among the most widely used. The largest instrument in a ...

Recently, the two-person musical instrument department ... who will be playing an 1899 oud — a Middle Eastern instrument in the lute family — made by Greek-born master luthier Manol (also ...

EVROPOS, Greece, - In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching nine strings ...