If you are planning to learn a new string instrument, there are plenty of options for you to choose from. With string instruments for beginners available in both Indian and western instruments, you ...

The violin, viola, cello and double bass are among the most recognisable orchestral and solo instruments. But there is a particular set known as the "Golden Age" instruments which are arguably the ...

Music can move people in many ways. It is a gift that has the power to connect people with a shared interest in a genre, a ...

In a Perspective, Paolo Cherubini highlights the value of dendrochronology – an objective and nondestructive method – in assessing the authenticity of musical string instruments. Stringed instruments, ...

Vietnam is home to 54 ethnic groups, each with its own customs and traditions. Those groups have created a variety of traditional musical instruments, which have played an important role in Vietnamese ...

India is a country rich in tradition and skill. Be it the ancient dance forms that entertain and inform people even today, to the forms of ‘nataks’ and ‘jatras’ that show society a mirror, Indian art ...

Sounds can be made by twanging a string or an elastic band, blowing down a pipe, banging something together, and scraping or shaking something. There are three families of musical instruments - string ...