p>MUSICAL instruments can show what a nation is like, as the Muzika Etnika exhibition at the Slovak National Museum (SNM) on Vajanského Embankment in Bratislava demonstrates. Until October 4, it will ...

Sandy Bull, an influential musician whose eclecticism and mastery of the guitar and such exotic stringed instruments as the oud presaged musical trends of the 1960s and beyond, died at his home near ...

This bandurria, from Peru or Bolivia, is a chordophone. That's a fancy way of saying that it's a stringed instrument, a group that's well-represented in the Hartenberger World Music Collection at the ...

We all know the names of common musical instruments, but this list of 11 unusual musical instruments with weird names will show you that there are some out there you’ve never seen or heard about. As ...

This book addresses core questions about the role of materials in general and of wood in particular in the construction of string instruments used in the modern symphony orchestra - violins, violas, ...

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: ...

Vietnam is home to 54 ethnic groups, each with its own customs and traditions. Those groups have created a variety of traditional musical instruments, which have played an important role in Vietnamese ...