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.

the craft of building string instruments reached a state of near-perfection in a humble workshop in Cremona, Italy. The craftsman’s name is still known around the world more than 300 years later ...

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 ...

the objects have now been found to represent something far rarer—not just the oldest animal bones to be found in Southeast Asia, but the earliest-known stringed instruments to be unearthed in ...

Another joy is that many of the oldest songs and instruments can ... enriched by the centuries-long use of string instruments such as guqins and erhus, various types of flutes, and even an ancient ...