To most Americans, the hammered dulcimer is a new and unfamiliar instrument. Even people who know much about American music often confuse the hammered dulcimer with the three- or four-stringed ...

The Museum's music collections contain more than 5,000 instruments of American and European heritage. These include a quartet of 18th-century Stradivari stringed instruments, Tito Puente's autographed ...

Tim Galloway hinted at that with a pulsing rhythm on bouzouki, a tinny-sounding Greek stringed instrument, but King ...

The prominence of violinists in orchestras is linked to their role in carrying melodies and balancing the ensemble's sound as ...

CT scans are typically used to look for cancer, organ damage and other medical issues. But they can also help examine other ...

History Guitars have been played since the Renaissance era, after descending from the ancient Greek instrument ... a D or an E two octaves above the highest string. How to play Unlike many string ...

One of these, The Periplus of the Eritrean Sea, a document written in the first century by a Greek merchant living ... captains could hide their recondite instrument from the suspicious eyes ...

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From an African king to a Chinese princess, meet the fascinating figures whose stories are forever entwined with the Silk ...

Best known as the name of the mythological Greek goddess of spring and queen of the underworld, Persephone may derive Sanskrit and mean "thresher of grain." Viola is rooted in the Latin genus name for ...

In Vietnam, the revenue generated in the Acoustic Pianos & Stringed Keyboard Instruments market is estimated to be US$37.2m in 2024. It is projected to experience a yearly growth rate of 8.06% ...

The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a transposing instrument and is ...