New Life for Japan's Traditional 13-Stringed Instrument Taiko is the most popular Asian instrument in America. There are more than a hundred taiko groups across the country, classes for kids and ...

Now the instrument can play modern music like jazz, blues and even rock. Now the instrument can play modern music like jazz, blues and even rock. Culture researcher and composer Thao Giang says one of ...

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

Stringed Instruments (Zither and Hackbrett). Produced 1976 for SBC / SRI by Lance Tschannen. Stringed Instruments: Zither and Hackbrett – Swiss Folk Instruments ...

More Swiss Folk Instruments – Stringed Instruments (Zither and Hackbrett) (MH 55/1976) This content was published on Nov 7, 2009 Programme Contents: 1. ‘s Munotglöggli – Little Bell Of The ...

Jatta, 55, is from Gambia, a member of the Jola people. He's holding an akonting: a three-stringed instrument with a long neck and a body made from a calabash gourd with a goat skin stretched over it.

Mimi McNamara, 12, a student at Holy Family School, plays the ruan-or four-string guitar-for the Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra. (photo Jacqueline Ramseyer/SVCN/April 8, 2008) ...

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 ...

Playing live in the WBEZ studios (from left): Yim Chan thy, playing woodwinds; Lun Phanith, playing the Kse diev, a single string instrument with a gord; Nhouk Sinat, playing the stringed ...

Peter grew fond of folk music during his travels in Europe. ... "A three-stringed musical instrument in the form of a guitar, played by strumming the strings with fingers." ...

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

This traditional Russian instrument is the babushka (grandma) of the balalaika. It appeared in Slavic lands after the Tatar Mongol yoke, evolving from the Mongol’s plucked string instruments.