BATTLE GROUND — One day in December 2016, during a rail journey into same northern Italian countryside where the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari made his stringed masterpieces, Mark and Sharon ...

For many, hearing the plucked nylon strings of a ukulele instantly conjures Hawaiian beaches and perfect surf, grassy hula skirts and Don Ho. But to hear South Portland resident Joel Eckhaus pick his ...

The Project explores Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, Eastern European, Celtic, Medieval, and West African music through original compositions and unexpected instrumentation, including tarhu duets.

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: ...

Posts on Hackaday sometimes trend a little bit retro, but rarely do we cover hacks that reach back into the Bronze Age. Still, when musician [Peter Pringle] put out a video detailing how he replicated ...

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, ...

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 ...

• 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 ...

Jacket notes and leaflet include descriptions and illustrations of the instruments. Production notes: "The instruments heard on these records were recorded in their native countries." [compiled and ...