This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

Following several small tweaks to the performance date due to snow days, the Salisbury-Rowan Symphony’s After-School Strings Winter Concert was held Tuesday night at Isenberg Elementary School. The ...

When we think about rock music, we can agree it's a genre most commonly plied and voiced via the instrument of electric guitar. While rock and the guitar are not mutually exclusive, and the insights ...

The Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival returns to Pittsburgh this weekend. Microtonal music, according to festival organizers, “expands the possibilities of sound by using tuning systems beyond, or in ...

The craftsmanship says “fine musical instrument.” The jovial atmosphere says “fiddle.” As luthiers Steve Thomas and Gary Vessel work in their downtown Modesto shop, Thomas & Vessel Stringed ...

The remains of what is beleived to be the earliest stringed instrument in western Europe have been uncovered in Scotland. A small burnt and broken piece of carved wood was found during an excavation ...

Shirley Abicair, who has died aged 98, became a television and radio star in the 1950s as a self-taught exponent of the ...