An award-winning craftsman blends Spanish lutherie and local design to build world-beating classical guitars, Wang Xin reports in Shanghai. Gao Yi's classical guitar reaches the final of the 7th ...

French sound artist Remi Klemensiewicz sees the differences between Korean and French in their vowels. Ah, eh, ee, oh, oo — the same basic sounds exist in nearl ...

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

Defence barrister Eleanor Scott-Davies questioned paedophile hunter Frances King's tactics in the south Essex grooming trial ...

Defence barrister Eleanor Scott-Davies Frances King's tactics in the south Essex grooming trial of Paul Valentine.

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Get in, losers: We’re going to the Renaissance faire. Phoebe Bridgers just announced her first solo album in six years, Lost ...

“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 ...

A belly turns into a drum, hands mold into percussion tools and a face adorns a brass bell in this anatomical art history show ...

Jozef Van Wissem is doing battle with tradition — armed with a 24-string lute and a bottleneck slide. “When I do this at a show, the first people who leave are the classical people,” he says. “They ...

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 ...