Wood has been used for thousands of years for the making of stringed musical instruments. Primitive harps were in existence in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia as far back as 3,000 B.C. Other ancient ...

This is the ninth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

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Q: I'm trying to make very approximate calculations to determine what pull would be necessary to shear bridges from the tops of musical instruments. Different-sized instruments have different area ...

The lordly violin and its less illustrious relatives in the string family are in trouble. As today’s concert halls grow more cavernous, it becomes increasingly difficult for a solo violinist to ...