Three masters from the International Guitar Foundation explain the differences between classical and flamenco guitars, and ...

They represent the top level of traditional Chinese music, not only at home, but also abroad," says Zhao Cong, a veteran pipa (a four-stringed lute ... and learning, these old instruments," says Zhao.

Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...

Centered on the extraordinary appeal of "The Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by Katsushika Hokusai, this exhibition offers a smartly ...

The red Minimalist sculptures feature sets of strings. But unlike traditional string instruments, they aren’t meant to be played by people. The sounds they produce depend on the wind’s force ...

Tom is a writer in London with a Master's degree in Journalism whose editorial work covers anything from health and the environment to technology and archaeology. An unusual deer antler found in ...

One of the event’s highlights is Ellen Fullman’s Long String Instrument installation, with dozens of tuned wires stretched 50 or more feet. “Playing my instrument is like walking or swimming ...

By his late teens, all those skills and passions came together as he started making stringed instruments. Antonio Stradivari (circa 1644-1737), was a legendary luthier. An instrument made by him ...

The soul-shattering abuses suffered by enslaved Africans, who were forcibly stripped of their languages, religions and other key aspects of their culture, were fortunately no match for their ...

The Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, the most dramatic of symphonies, must have been quite a shock at its 1830 premiere ... a glorious account of one of her instrument’s showpieces, the Richard ...

Hildur Gudnadóttir, who won the best score Oscar for 2019’s ‘Joker,’ returned for the follow-up film that sought to expand the “vocabulary of the string instruments” from the first film.

There are a handful of sounds to choose from, and some emulate playing chords on a stringed instrument across multiple octaves. The internal FX and arpeggiator allow for even more unique compositions.