Ancient Chinese music features a distinctive sound, enriched by the centuries-long use of string instruments such as guqins and erhus, various types of flutes, and even an ancient organ-like ...
Inspired by Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Fran Scott and Greg Foot set about finding out all about string instruments and how they work and make such different sounds. They look inside a piano and see ...
Drawing instruments have been essential to mathematics, architecture, surveying, navigation, engineering design, and other technical endeavors from antiquity through the 20th century, although ...
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 ...
Photo courtesy Michael Simmons. Frank Ford, the co-founder of Gryphon Stringed Instruments and a beloved member of the Palo Alto musicians’ community, died after a brief illness on Sunday ...
A year ago, researchers realized that the ancient antlers were actually stringed musical instruments, making them the earliest known devices used for music in the region. The antlers are 13.7 ...
Asin plays the Sindhi Sarangi (a stringed instrument not unlike a fiddle) and performs vocals. Sawai plays a long list of traditional Indian instruments including Dholak (a two-headed drum ...