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 ...

FRAN SCOTT: I love this piece. In fact I think it was the first bitof classical music that I ever heard. GREG FOOT: Ah yes Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. It's got the best startto any piece of music ever ...

At what age do most kids start learning how to play guitar? If you ask guitar maker Brian Calhoun, based on conversations he’s had with early music educators, it’s “very rare” to see kids pick up the ...

The effects of different accompaniment and register conditions on string instrumentalists' intonation performance of scalar passages were investigated. Forty-eight college-aged instrumentalists (12 ...

Ellen Fullman is sheltering in place with the 40-string, 45-foot-long droning instrument she created decades ago. The sound artist Ellen Fullman near her home in Berkeley, Calif.Credit...Erin ...

Dramyen, also known as six-string instrument, is said to have a history of 700 years. It is the primary accompanying instrument for the folk dances Duixie and Nangma. Zha in Tibetan means sound, and ...

About 30 years ago in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, there were 20 strings, 50 feet in length, slowly humming a composition by Ellen Fullman — she thinks. There might have been more strings; probably not ...

Hildur Gudnadóttir, who won the best score Oscar for 2019’s ‘Joker,’ returned for the follow-up film that sought to expand the “vocabulary of the string instruments” from the first film. By Nicole ...

The lowest string instrument in the world plays some very low, very mellow Mozart, thanks to the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. The Montreal Symphony Orchestra has just become the only ensemble in the ...

The Oscar-winning "Joker" composer expanded Arthur's inner anguish with a new instrument that functioned like a playable electric fence. Oscar-winning “Joker” composer Hildur Gudnadottir played an ...