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: ...

• 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 ...

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The octobass is a huge stringed instrument that is twice the size of a double bass when standing, about 3.6 meters, and the strings cannot be pressed as they are, so the strings are pressed with a ...

The Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival returns to Pittsburgh this weekend. Microtonal music, according to festival organizers, “expands the possibilities of sound by using tuning systems beyond, or in ...

The unveiling ceremony was organized during the closing ceremony of the 12th Woodwork Exhibition at Tehran’s Niavaran Culture Center. The instrument takes its name from the first letters of the artist ...