Japanese audio brand Analog Relax has unveiled a new moving-coil cartridge inspired by some of the most iconic and valuable classical instruments on the planet. The new EX700 MC phono cartridge ...

BATTLE GROUND — One day in December 2016, during a rail journey into same northern Italian countryside where the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari made his stringed masterpieces, Mark and Sharon ...

MusicaNova Orchestra announces CONTRAST FOR STRINGS, a concert highlighting the power of stringed instruments. From violin and viola to cello and double bass, MusicaNova's string orchestra performs a ...

Inside the concert hall of the Violin Museum in Cremona, Italy, Antonio de Lorenzi plays the prelude from Bach's Partita No. 3 on a Stradivarius violin. Cremona is the town where master luthier ...

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: ...

We call violins, violas, cellos and basses a “family” of strings, but they’re more like fraternal than identical twins. Each has a distinct timbre that comes through whenever they play as a group.

Learn about the history of the mountain dulcimer and its birthplace in Hindman, Kentucky. The "sweet sound" of the Appalachian Dulcimer is so ingrained in Kentucky's history that in 20-01 it was ...

Movies set in the past often rely on music to tell us just where we are. Most, but not all, of the composers of this year’s period pieces felt the obligation to reflect time and place. For Ridley ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Max Paradiso CREMONA, Italy — Florencia Rastelli was mortified. As an expert barista, she had never spilled a single cup of coffee, she said. But ...

DESTIN — The gentle sounds of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" played on a dozen stringed instruments filled one of the rooms at the Destin Community Center on Monday afternoon. It was the first day of ...