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: ...

Kruno Kupresanin's house is a stringed instrument lover's delight. The front room is a musical showroom: Rows of violins, cellos, basses and bows hang from the walls. Many are decades, and some ...

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 ...

When you're in a world-class chamber group like The Calidore String Quartet in Delaware, each instrument carries a colorful story.

Frank Ford wearing his “trademark” Hawaiian shirt, hard at work repairing a guitar. Photo courtesy Michael Simmons. Frank Ford, the co-founder of Gryphon Stringed Instruments and a beloved member of ...

The stringed instrument type list includes over a dozen defaults, including electric and acoustic guitars, ukuleles, mandolin, banjo and lap steel. The motor here isn't designed to tackle bass guitars ...

Many visitors wheeling their luggage through Blue Grass Airport during the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games will be serenaded by live music. One group hired for the gig is called the Kentucky Trio: ...