Few bassists can match the pedigree of Viktor Krauss, thanks to his session work with the likes of Lyle Lovett, Bill Frisell, ...

There is something about the violin that keeps showing up at the exact moment a story needs to feel enormous. Not a guitar, ...

Madonna releases her highly-anticipated album 'Confessions II', a spiritual sequel to 2005's 'Confessions on a Dance Floor'.

An intriguing new study shows positive cognitive effects for older people playing an instrument for the first time.

In crafting the primary riffs for Spiritbox songs, I’ll often combine aggressively strummed, atonal power chords with fast ...

The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky A hushed chord sustained by the second violin, viola and cello. Fragments of a melody ...

A new tree-ring study solves the mystery of where the famed instrument-maker Anton Stradivari sourced timber for his violins during his “golden age.” A French chemist inspects a Stradivarius violin at ...

The pipe organ is typically associated with formal concert halls, church music and traditional works by Baroque composers like Bach. But one musician, Anna Lapwood, is broadening the instrument’s ...

The life of a piano tuner is not glamorous. Unpredictable hours, loud noises, finicky clients, wrenches, needles. Tuners can work on as many as five pianos a day. But, in a world of “I know a guy,” it ...

The next time you’re listening to someone play guitar — be it a big-name artist or your favorite local musician — there’s a good chance a critical part of their guitar string was made right here in ...

The Mirena intrauterine device (IUD) releases synthetic progesterone that may help lighten heavy periods during perimenopause, but it doesn’t delay menopause or relieve other symptoms like hot flashes ...

The Dutch ex-punk and Jim Jarmusch bandmate talks about his passion to free up a hidebound repertoire and make its strings ‘a real pop instrument’ Nobody can accuse Jozef Van Wissem of doing things by ...