"Ukelin" is one of the more common trade names of a type of stringed musical instrument marketed from the early 1920s until about 1965. Ukelins combine two sets of strings, one group of sixteen ...

He's holding an akonting: a three-stringed instrument with a ... It has a long neck that, like those of early banjos, extends through the instrument's gourd body. It has a movable wooden bridge ...

In the early 1560s, Catherine de Médicis, the French queen regent, commissioned Amati to make a variety of string instruments for the Royal Ensemble. How many Amati made and delivered remains ...

In his early 40s, his practice established and ... Meineke didn’t find anything in the orthodox research of stringed-instrument acoustics that was of much use to him. Some of the pioneering ...

“The early violin was not a solo instrument but an accompaniment to songs and dances,” said Hwan-Ching Tai. “It is conceivable that Andrea Amati may have wanted to build a string instrument that could ...

Local early music societies include the Junior ... Harpsichords, on the other hand, are string instruments that are closer in kinship to lutes and baroque guitars. A harpsichord's low-tension ...

If you ask guitar maker Brian Calhoun, based on conversations he’s had with early music educators ... scaled-down version of the instrument that has only one string instead of six to make ...