What is it: Play It Forward — Classical MPR's Musical Instrument Drive. People with old instruments can donate them to their local schools. Instruments being accepted: brass, woodwinds, string ...

Few contest that a centuries-old violin will be more coveted than its newer counterparts, assuming it was well-made to begin with. That’s how luthiers like Stradivari and Guarneri have become ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The London International Festival of Early Music: a member of staff demonstrates how to play the EMS Theorbo from the Lute section ...

The restored Victoria Public Hall pays tribute to old instruments from the Sangam-era like kinnaram and kokkarai, thanks to ...

Hallmark senior artist Matt Kesler places handlebars atop a pair of French horns, in preparation for the final stage of a piece he calls “The French Peddler.” The work goes up for auction July 12 at ...

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: ...

Crisp, warm, responsive. The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is on a journey to meet these benchmarks under the baton of music director Gianandrea Noseda. One of the ways in which he's shaping a new ...

Salons, the kind 18th century French ladies hosted, are a thing of the past. Or are they? Who in this day and age invites people to sit in their living room, enjoy music and conversation over a glass ...

Archaeologists working in northeastern Spain say a cache of conch shells was not just decorative debris from ancient shorelines but a set of carefully modified instruments that once filled Neolithic ...

BROCKTON - Students in the beloved Brockton High School marching band are using instruments that are 20 to 30 years old, said Rebecca Desmond, director of music at Brockton Public Schools. And, she ...

Ok, does everyone remember when we got QuickTime 3.0, and Marathon's music went all weird because it wasn't designed for the new instruments? At the time, I poked around a bit, but all I found was the ...