How instruments connect cultures. The ektara, a one-stringed instrument commonly used in Baul and Bhakti traditions, closely ...

The larger 25-string instrument was developed in the 1980s with more strings and a wider range of ways to play music.Lily has always had an interest in learning about traditional Korean music.“I ...

Strings for traditional Japanese instruments such as koto and shamisen are stretched between pillars at the workshop of ...

The second most widely used Korean string instrument is the haegeum, a 2-string fiddle that was introduced to Korea from China in the Koryo dynasty (918-1392). It is the equivalent of the “erhu” ...

When Karl and Jackie Dieterichs first opened their folk music shop in 1966, it wasn’t exactly easy to find a banjo in Bucks County. But the Dieterichs’ vision changed that. The Bucks County Folk Music ...

It also has a long history in Chinese musical instruments – so much so that the Mandarin term sizhu, which translates as “ silk and bamboo”, refers to string and wind musical instruments.

This year, the Lansing, Michigan-based Elderly Instruments, which specializes in the sale and repair of vintage string instruments, emerged as the victor from a sea of more than 15,000 applications.

Often accompanying the guqin, a zither-like seven-stringed traditional musical instrument, the xiao, a traditional vertical bamboo flute with a relatively light sound, was often viewed as a foil.

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the American musical mainstream, creating popular new American music genres tha… ...

Obokano, the eight-stringed traditional guitar of Abagusii people has had its distinct space as the only male musical instrument. The lyre has distinguished itself as a man-musical tool over the ...