A valuable cello that traveled from Nazi Germany across war-torn Europe to the U.S. evokes a story of hope and survival.

Nikolai Dorosh sold his $40,000 cello to support his family as they left war-torn Ukraine to start a new life in Vancouver.

A Swedish-born classical composer is behind what has been described as the world’s first joint performance by a symphony orchestra and a robot playing the cello. Standing on a podium, the ...

Researcher and composer Fredrik Gran designed and developed a cello-playing robot for the Swedish composer Jacob Muhlrad. According to Reuters it was the first performance of a robot playing a ...

A robot playing the cello performed alongside the Malmo Symphony Orchestra in southern Sweden last week (Oct. 17). The first time a robotic cello was played with a full symphony orchestra ...

A robot playing the cello performed alongside the Malmo Symphony Orchestra in southern Sweden last week (October 17). The first time a robotic cello was played with a full symphony orchestra ...

Chances are, in your mental image, they’re playing with endpins — the pointy-tipped metal rods that anchor the cello to the floor and raise it to a comfortable playing height.

This article was originally published with the title “Playing A'cello by Compressed Air” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 101 No. 16 (October 1909), p. 280 doi:10.1038 ...

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