Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

Currently up for $50,000 in funding on Kickstarter, the Wheelharp delivers the sounds of a chamber string orchestra via a keyboard and a full chromatic set of real strings. Oh, and it's pretty much ...

Mozart was 23 when his imaginative streak was sparked by the new instrumental forms and styles he had encountered on a tour to Mannheim and Paris. The result was one of his most popular and enduring ...

CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

While in-person concerts are not quite in sight, the DuPage Symphony Orchestra’s Sunday Serenade Series continues its virtual offerings with the Chiara String Quartet on April 11. The quartet will ...

A group of youngsters in red silk Mandarin-collared shirts are plucking, beating or blowing into Asian musical instruments that generate delicately trembling and airy melodies. The young musicians ...

His band is all strung out. A composer has tossed aside the traditional violins and clarinets and assembled an orchestra entirely of guitars. The music man said the all-string ensemble, coming to ...