This bandurria, from Peru or Bolivia, is a chordophone. That's a fancy way of saying that it's a stringed instrument, a group that's well-represented in the Hartenberger World Music Collection at the ...

Sandy Bull, an influential musician whose eclecticism and mastery of the guitar and such exotic stringed instruments as the oud presaged musical trends of the 1960s and beyond, died Wednesday at his ...

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 ...

KOCHI: When people find their true calling, it is nothing short of serendipity. For Bonny Abraham, a Thiruvananthapuram-based multi-string instrumentalist, his inspiration came in the form of a ...

p>MUSICAL instruments can show what a nation is like, as the Muzika Etnika exhibition at the Slovak National Museum (SNM) on Vajanského Embankment in Bratislava demonstrates. Until October 4, it will ...

DURING DAVID LINDLEY’S many tours with Jackson Browne, Lindley would hole up in his hotel room after shows and listen to music from places like Shandong, China, or Turkey or Morocco or Madagascar, and ...