String material impacts sound quality, pitch, sustain, and player experience in string instruments based on stiffness, ...

Expressive E is a French company based in Marseille, dedicated to designing innovative musical instruments that place expression at the heart of performance. Since 2013, the team has developed a ...

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CUMBERLAND – Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St., kicks off its outside concert series with guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto on ...

On a rainy Sunday afternoon, the ensemble performed a dozen arrangements, taking listeners through centuries of musical ...

Wenyan Li will play erhu, a bowed instrument known as the Chinese two-stringed fiddle. Yangqin, or hammered dulcimer, will be performed by Zengqi Yu, who is Li's husband. The pipa, a plucked ...

Stringed instruments make noise from the vibrations of tuned strings, using acoustic or electronic means to amplify those vibrations to the point where they’re loud enough to hear. The strings ...

Two instrumental music teachers who give lessons on string instruments, such as the cello and violin, were among them. The Board of Education approved the $197.9 million budget on May 1.

An unusual deer antler found in Vietnam may be one of the oldest string instruments ever unearthed in Southeast Asia. Discovered at a site along the Mekong River, the 2,000-year-old instrument is ...

The Chinese plucked string instrument known as the ruan is a lute with a fretted neck, a circular body and four strings. While traditionally made of silk, ruan strings have been made of steel ...

Over plucked string instruments, a glassy, bell-like melody emerges from a celesta, evoking water drops and then more as those drops give way to flowing runs. It’s a transporting sound ...