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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I PLAY TWO STRINGED INSTRUMENTS AND. ONE DRUM. NINE YEAR OLD LILY IS PLAYING AN INSTRUMENT THAT KOREANS HAVE PLAYED SINCE THE SIXTH CENTURY SILLA PERIOD. BUSTLE. APPROXIMATELY 1500 YEARS AGO.

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 ...