A guitar leaned against an empty chair during the Aurora Fiddle Society's recent Friday night jam. The sight left many of us ...

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When it comes to Wuxi-made musical instruments, the erhu (two-stringed fiddle) is the most widely recognized. Arriving at the ...

This week on The Phoenix Symphony broadcast, the most famous four notes in music history and a brilliant performance of Mendelssohn's violin concerto.

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...

Fiddlers of all ages filled Fleetwood Park for the Berks Fiddle Fest on Sunday, Sept. 15. “We’re excited to bring this unique, one-of-a-kind festival to Fleetwood and celebrate the art of ...

But when professional musician Esther Abrami brings hers on an airplane — a violin made in the 19th century by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume — she’s carrying a precious artifact. “The violin is ...

Nestled beneath the shade trees on campus of Athens State University, guitar, bass and fiddle pickers will break out into songs made famous by the bluegrass and country players of old — Earl ...

While progressive notes from raga Hemavati conjured up spirals ... Dikshitar composition brought to mind the history of the violin as a once purely western instrument, credited with being adapted ...

But early violin lessons, starting at age 5, didn't start out smoothly “I remember it being very uncomfortable, and I tried to tell my teacher, ‘my wrist doesn’t bend that way ...

What happened at Post Malone’s Fenway Park show Wednesday night would have felt like a fever dream just a few years ago.

A member of the Polaris Dawn flight crew performed the first violin solo in space — appropriately to the tune of a “Star Wars” theme — after participating in the first-ever civilian spacewalk.