From contrabassoons to harmonicas, we take a look at some of the concertos for more unusual instruments to have found their ...

For Vickey Sasser, every dulcimer tells the story of Appalachia and America. The mountain dulcimer, a string instrument popular in American folk music, first appeared in America in the early 19th ...

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Phoebe Bridgers takes us to the Renaissance faire in the video for "Lost Boys," her 'Lost Weekend' single that features Jack ...

“Game of Thrones” was known as the fantasy show for people who don’t like fantasy, thanks to language and graphic content akin to HBO’s contemporary dramas. But it also endeavored to sound different ...

Antonio Stradivari, the legendary Italian luthier and craftsman, had the Midas’ touch for string instruments. It was a craft he (and one other luthier) perfected for the production of acoustically ...

A musician may have strummed its strings all the way back in the 3rd millennium BC. This means that the Bull’s Lyre, aka the Golden Lyre of Ur, is one of the oldest string instruments in the world. It ...

A musical instrument created in Guelph, Ont., has been thrust onto the international stage — or rather, screen. The instrument called Fron2 is featured heavily on the soundtrack for a Chinese art ...

Ellen Arkbro makes music that shifts and churns with scant regard for harmonic convention. She’s one of the most interesting composers for her instrument working today. Ellen Arkbro makes music that ...

“It’s your troubled hero / Back for season six”, Florence Welch sings on ‘The Old Religion’ – a note of irony ringing through her distinctly sirenic voice. Yet rather than a tale of her singular ...

Originating in northern India, it is named after Rudra, the fierce form of Shiva. It is believed that Ravana built and played this veena to pay homage to Shiva and named it after him.

At a 13th-century Scottish castle, researchers have excavated a medieval gravoir—a thin, pointed tool once used to style hair. The rare artifact is part of a cache of objects that reveal what daily ...