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 ...

Scanning string instruments is his latest project ... on the rare bass show clear images of annual growth rings in the wood, which can signify how old a tree was when it was cut down. The team hopes ...

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 ...

On Wednesday night at the Library of Congress, the opportunity to hear some of history’s most finely crafted instruments ...

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 ...