Soundiron has released Hopkin Instrumentarium: Icicles & Pop Ice. Here's the full details in their own words... Icicles & Pop Ice are a pair of distinct string instruments that deliver a bright, ...

Working with composers collective Bleeding Fingers, Edinburgh-based enterprise The Crow Hill Company has released PREHISTORIC STRINGS which they describe as as a truly unique string library. They say ...

Liu, who specializes in the works of Brahms and received an Avery Fisher Career Grant, will perform Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor. Vanoosten will conduct Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 in G major ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A rare and significant collection of string instruments from the Holocaust can be seen in Pittsburgh now through November 21 at an exhibit called "Violins of Hope", and the hope ...

Music has always been humanity’s most universal language — but not every instrument plays by the rules. From a glass contraption that reportedly drove players to madness, to a harp powered entirely by ...

From the gentle sound of a harp to the deep voice of a cello, every string instrument has something special to share. Explore these different string instruments and discover what makes each one sound ...

RetroFret, a music shop in Gowanus, Brooklyn specializing in “rare and bizarre instruments,” is a true discovery even before you enter the store. You’d never guess that the hodgepodge block Retrofret ...

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, ...

A 2,000-year-old instrument - likely one of the oldest in Southeast Asia - was discovered in Vietnam, researchers say Photo from the journal Antiquity Two antlers sat tucked away in museum storage for ...

When James Talambas plays the long string instrument, he often imagines flying. The long string instrument, which was created by Ellen Fullman, is 60 feet long and features 44 bronze strings stretched ...

Can a single string produce sound? Yes, a single string really can. The Jing ethnic group's single-stringed instrument, through the plucking of its string by the fingertips, weaves the breath of the ...