At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...

COLUMBIA — Musicians will host three workshops for guitars, fiddles, ukuleles and other stringed instruments on Friday as a continuation of Columbia's Eve Fest celebration. The workshops will take ...

Ten sanshin players from the Kauai Sanshin Club left Thursday to perform with the Hawaii sanshin group at the National Theater in Tokyo, Japan June 8. The sanshin translates to “three stings.” An ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Molo is a three-stringed lute (a lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing ...

The stringed instrument type list includes over a dozen defaults, including electric and acoustic guitars, ukuleles, mandolin, banjo and lap steel. The motor here isn't designed to tackle bass guitars ...

Since the first of our ancestors discovered that banging a stick on a hollow log makes a jolly sound, we hominids have been finding new and unusual ways to make music. We haven’t come close to tapping ...

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: ...