Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

The violin, viola, cello and double bass are among the most recognisable orchestral and solo instruments. But there is a particular set known as the "Golden Age" instruments which are arguably the ...

If you are planning to learn a new string instrument, there are plenty of options for you to choose from. With string instruments for beginners available in both Indian and western instruments, you ...

Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

After attending that one incredible evening to mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Canada and Korea, titled “Love’s Mosaic” and featuring traditional Korean music and pansori, I ...

Vietnam is home to 54 ethnic groups, each with its own customs and traditions. Those groups have created a variety of traditional musical instruments, which have played an important role in Vietnamese ...

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 ...