The oldest is a violin made in 1686 in Cremona, Italy. Since 2019, Noseda has been quietly loaning 17th - 19th century Italian string instruments from his private collection to the NSO.

A 25-stringed musical instrument, said to be made several hundred years ago, was recently found in Yi Autonomous County of Weishan, southwest China 's Yunnan Province. This may be the oldest ...

At about 4,500 years old, these harps are the world's oldest stringed instruments ever discovered. Queen Puabi's lyre was made of wood, most of which decayed over the millennia. During excavations ...

Even on unfamiliar instruments, the Pacific players rose to the challenge of telling both stories. The slow bloom of the “Molto adagio” from George Walker’s 1946 String Quartet No. 1 opened ...