When worshippers arrive at Salem Lutheran Church in Tomball for Christmas Eve services, they'll enter more than a sanctuary. They'll be stepping into a musical instrument. Its strings will span the ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

Early this year, I attended a cutting-edge music performance and workshop at the celebrated venue Roulette, in the heart of Brooklyn, New York, during which the ghosts of Memphis were very present.

Part of How To Classical. Why does the oboe tune the orchestra? Why does the orchestra sit the way it does? What does rosin actually do to a violin bow? If you find the traditions of the classical ...

Like most people these days, sound artist Ellen Fullman is sheltering in place. But she has an unusual roommate: a massive installation she calls the Long String Instrument. Filling the ground floor ...

Jamaica has reggae and Hawaii has its distinct, Polynesian-influenced melodies. But far more obscure — because it's not sung in the English language — is another island-music genre: the native songs ...

Strings are essential to many musical instruments, but because of the metals used to make them, most can't be recycled. One of the largest instrument string makers is trying to change that. Each year ...

AUBURN, Ala. (WRBL) — Emma Dansak, an Auburn Community Orchestra member and string instructor, will host a free string instrument repair open house on Sunday, Sept. 7. Officials say the event is for ...