Dotcom millionaire Bill Townsend wants to celebrate classical stringed instruments, rescue America's struggling orchestras, recruit a new generation of music lovers and give modern violin makers ...

The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a transposing instrument and is ...

The artifacts represent the earliest-known stringed instruments found in Southeast Asia. A reconstruction of the chordophone, crafted out of deer antler. Photo: Antiquity (2023). DOI: 10.15184/aqy ...

Although some old instruments look like modern stringed instruments, they may actually be in different families. For instance, the viola da gamba resembles a cello but has six strings and is ...

1. The oud. Dating back to the Middle East in 3000 B.C., this is considered a precursor of modern stringed instruments. 2. The Fender Telecaster.

String instruments of this region have a prominent longer neck, one or more sound chamber, and more often than not, mistaken one for the other by the common eye. Ektara, the ever prominent musical ...