A string instrument "Cello" which is larger than the violin and slightly smaller than the contrabass is a musical instrument with four strings and bass echoes. A cello craftworker cut out timber, ...

While working on her doctoral thesis, cellist Saskia Rao-de Haas remembers chancing on a 1932 letter from Rabindranath Tagore to his granddaughter. There is an instrument, he says, that he prefers ...

Ishmael Ali wears many musical hats: composer, guitarist (in the bands Je’raf and Errata) and co-founder of a recording space in North Lawndale. But it’s his most recent instrument — cello — that has ...

Lately, Rafael Carrabba has been able to breathe just a little bit easier. A few weeks ago, the Seattle-based master luthier — who finds and fixes valuable string instruments — completed the most ...

Back in 2017, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston hired Shirley Hunt to play a special centennial event to commemorate a large donation of historical instruments by a museum trustee. Hunt, a Boston-based ...

Early this year, I attended a cutting-edge music performance and workshop at the celebrated venue Roulette, in the heart of Brooklyn, New York, during which the ghosts of Memphis were very present.

British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason became world-famous when he performed at the marriage between Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan. Now he tours the world, taking his priceless cello along with him.

There were no fuzzy animals at the Warm Springs Library. “It’s kind of funny," says Jaime McArdle of the Allegheny Mountain String Project. "Last year when we did this petting zoo, some of the kids ...