From violins and pianos to triangles and trumpets, instruments are key to making music. Did you know that there are four ...

There are three families of musical instruments: string, wind and percussion. When a string is plucked on an instrument, such as a guitar, the vibration is passed into the air and you hear a sound.

Habib Wardack prefers another type of stringed instrument- one that’s been around since the 7th Century. Wardack first picked up a rubab when he was 8 years old. He’s considered a virtuoso.

A new type of musical instrument, equipped with Y-shaped strings, may be the first of a family of string instruments with unusual overtones typically heard in bells or gongs.

esraj, which belongs to the category of bowed type of stringed instruments or vitata-vadya of indian classical music, is fast losing its popularity today. esraj which came into existence after ...

Nestled off County Road 437 east of Eustis, McLaughlin’s shop is filled with instruments of all types. The Red Barn, as the McLaughlin family endearingly named it a few years ago, is exactly that.