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 ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Mongolian ethnic group has a great musical heritage of which playing and performing is often seen as its characteristic. There are many musical folk instruments in Inner Mongolia, including sihu ...

India is a country rich in tradition and skill. Be it the ancient dance forms that entertain and inform people even today, to the forms of ‘nataks’ and ‘jatras’ that show society a mirror, Indian art ...