OK, let’s figure this one out. Here we are in the age of cutthroat Internet retail sales — low prices, no service — and here, still, is little Gryphon Stringed Instruments, as fine an example as you ...

Haymes calls himself a “utility infielder” in Ramblin Jug Stompers, responsible for many of the unusual sounds that don’t come from the typical stringed instruments in acoustic bands. At the band’s ...

His fingers gliding over the long fret-board of a bouzouki, R.A. Amalraj strums out ‘Ilaiyaneela Pozhigirathe’, an Illayaraja song replete with guitar riffs. Next, a new set of sounds governed by ...

The artifacts represent the earliest-known stringed instruments found in Southeast Asia. A reconstruction of the chordophone, crafted out of deer antler. Photo: Antiquity (2023). DOI: ...

We all know the names of common musical instruments, but this list of 11 unusual musical instruments with weird names will show you that there are some out there you’ve never seen or heard about. As ...

Local players of stringed instruments are looking forward to the arrival in Tualatin of Bob Culbertson, a renowned musician who plays an unusual stringed instrument called the Chapman Stick.

At the next Friends of Music concert Feb. 20, Hutchins Consort will perform traditional, modern, and classical music on a set of acoustically engineered stringed instruments that have unfamiliar names ...

Stringed instruments make noise from the vibrations of tuned strings, using acoustic or electronic means to amplify those vibrations to the point where they’re loud enough to hear. The strings are ...

Petr Bucinsky adjusts the bridge of a violin at his violin shop on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News) What is likely the oldest man-made object in Alaska still able to fully ...