Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

The art of crafting and playing Kamantcheh/Kamancha (‘little bow’), a bowed string instrument, has existed for over 1,000 years. In the Islamic Republic of Iran and Azerbaijan, it is a major element ...

Ellen Fullman is sheltering in place with the 40-string, 45-foot-long droning instrument she created decades ago. The sound artist Ellen Fullman near her home in Berkeley, Calif.Credit...Erin ...

Like most people these days, sound artist Ellen Fullman is sheltering in place. But she has an unusual roommate: a massive installation she calls the Long String Instrument. Filling the ground floor ...

A balalaika is a triangle-shaped string instrument with a fretted neck, hollow body and three strings. Two of them are tuned to the same note and the third is tuned a perfect fourth higher. "Children ...

International cellow day is celebrated on December 29. A cello which is the short form for violoncello is a string musical instrument which comes with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. Know who ...

Pipa learners perform at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing on July 13. [Photo by Su Guanming/China Daily] Pipa, a traditional Chinese string musical instrument with a history of over 2,000 ...

A liveshow by a Vietnamese artist living in Canada that honours dan bau, a traditional one-string musical instrument of Vietnam, has left deep impression among Hanoi music lovers. A liveshow by a ...

Guwahati: The 18th-century string musical instrument, the mandolin, was used in Assam from the time of World War II, with its heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s. However, its practice and attraction ...