"Ukelin" is one of the more common trade names of a type of stringed musical instrument marketed from the early 1920s until about 1965. Ukelins combine two sets of strings, one group of sixteen ...

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"We traveled to Jingdezhen many times to do research on those porcelain music instruments, which are very beautiful," says Zhao Cong, a veteran pipa (four-stringed Chinese lute) player, who is the ...

To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. This book explores the history of keyboard instruments from their ...

In the series, based on a medieval Japanese war epic called "The Tale of the Heike," Biwa witnesses the tragic fate of the Taira family while performing a Japanese musical instrument called the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Featuring the Sarod, (17 stringed plucked lute), Taus (28 stringed, fretted, bowed lute), Veena (6 stringed lute) and Double Bass. Act two features the premiere of a Carnatic choral work written ...

The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched of the string instrument family. Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical ...

The acoustic guitar is increasingly one of the most popular instruments taken up by young musicians - and its classical counterpart isn't all that different. Just like acoustic guitars, classical ...

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 ...