Yo-Yo Ma’s instrument of choice is a 300-year-old Stradivarius cello. But you can’t accompany a Mongolian long song on a Strad. For that, you need a morin khuur. It has a long thin neck, a trapezoidal ...

Though he had studied classical music from the age of 3, and cello from the time he was 9, Rushad Eggleston wasn’t married to either. During Eggleston’s teens, the cello would spend months at a time ...

We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Mario Miralles spent decades acquiring the spruce and maple for string instruments worthy of Yo-Yo Ma and Gustavo Dudamel. Then he was forced to evacuate. Mario Miralles spent ...

CHARLESTON, W. Va (Reuters Life!) - Harold Hayslett had a career as a pipefitter and fought in France in World War II, but he's famous for carving cherished cellos and violins from the trees of ...

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Musicians are a competitive lot. Universal praise for a fellow artist is virtually unknown. But the cellist Emanuel Feuermann was unique. "A talent like Feuermann's comes around once in a hundred ...

I was playing piano at the airport when two girls suddenly joined me with violin and cello and what started as a simple solo quickly turned into a beautiful trio as the sound of piano and strings ...