Well, you are only about a millennium behind the times. But never fear. Opportunities to hear this ancient Chinese two-stringed instrument known for it’s plaintive humanlike tone are on the upswing. A ...

OK, let’s figure this one out. Here we are in the age of cutthroat Internet retail sales — low prices, no service — and here, still, is little Gryphon Stringed Instruments, as fine an example as you ...

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: ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...

I PLAY TWO STRINGED INSTRUMENTS AND. ONE DRUM. NINE YEAR OLD LILY IS PLAYING AN INSTRUMENT THAT KOREANS HAVE PLAYED SINCE THE SIXTH CENTURY SILLA PERIOD. BUSTLE. APPROXIMATELY 1500 YEARS AGO. LILY HAS ...

A master of the viola da gamba and other stringed instruments, she was a central part of the early-music scene. By Neil Genzlinger Judith Davidoff, who mastered an assortment of stringed instruments ...

In describing his diddley bows, doshpuluurs, and canjos, craftsman Scott Weir said no two instruments ever make the same sound. They’re all a little quirky, just like him. Weir began creating these ...

Weaver, now 22, will play the lute and theorbo, two string instruments from the Renaissance era, tonight when the early music ensemble Artek presents a concert of music by Monteverdi at Franklin & ...

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 ...

WATERVILLE — Making fine stringed instruments such as the guitar and the violin is as much a passion as it is an art and a science. And a business. That was the message Saturday at Common Street Arts ...