If you were to travel to the Andes mountains of South America, you might encounter a small string instrument called a charango. At first glance, it looks a bit like a mandolin or ukulele with ten ...

They created a small stringed instrument capable of more expression and nuance than any that had come before, and composers embraced it.

A new type of musical instrument, equipped with Y-shaped strings, may be the first of a family of string instruments with unusual overtones typically heard in bells or gongs.

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music.