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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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: ...

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 ...

KILGORE, Texas (KLTV) - You often can’t see who’s pulling the strings, but whoever is playing the strings, well, that person usually wants to be seen. And there is a new business coming into downtown ...

From the mariachi’s booming guitarron on “Cielito Lindo,” to the powerful accordeón in Los Tigres del Norte’s “Ni Parientes Somos” to even the trap drums of a Natanael Cano corrido tumbado, the sound ...

Romania achieved a new cultural milestone as UNESCO added the cobza, a traditional pear-shaped string instrument, to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The ...

The String Project is a flagship program that provides affordable, carefully-structured lessons in violin and cello for children in the 4th through 10th grades, taught by the dedicated and talented ...

Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...

The UMass Lowell String Project is a music education and community engagement initiative housed in the Department of Music that provides music instruction to students grades 3-12 from the Merrimack ...