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

At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...

Origins: “My family was musical, and we grew up playing country and bluegrass and folk music, and I was interested in taking apart instruments,” KiLin Reece says about growing up in Bonny Doon, ...

• View this story alongside more photos, a slideshow and a video. When Frank Ford and Richard Johnston first met as college students back in the 1960s, introduced by a mutual friend, it was evident ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Stringed musical instrument. Neck of ...

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 ...

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 ...

When worshippers arrive at Salem Lutheran Church in Tomball for Christmas Eve services, they'll enter more than a sanctuary. They'll be stepping into a musical instrument. Its strings will span the ...