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 ...
COLUMBIA — Musicians will host three workshops for guitars, fiddles, ukuleles and other stringed instruments on Friday as a continuation of Columbia's Eve Fest celebration. The workshops will take ...
Ten sanshin players from the Kauai Sanshin Club left Thursday to perform with the Hawaii sanshin group at the National Theater in Tokyo, Japan June 8. The sanshin translates to “three stings.” An ...
Since the first of our ancestors discovered that banging a stick on a hollow log makes a jolly sound, we hominids have been finding new and unusual ways to make music. We haven’t come close to tapping ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Molo is a three-stringed lute (a lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing ...
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: ...
Towering more than 6 feet tall with a coffee can resonator attached to a food chopper, then to a soup can ending with a funnel, the three-stringed Rocket Launcher is the cudgel of sound I'm convinced ...