Watch: Few people in the world can play this instrument. One of them is in Dallas

When James Talambas plays the long string instrument, he often imagines flying. The instrument is 60 feet long and features ...
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The Octobass is a giant stringed instrument that produces sounds so low they are inaudible to humans.

The octobass is a huge stringed instrument that is twice the size of a double bass when standing, about 3.6 meters, and the strings cannot be pressed as they are, so the strings are pressed with a ...
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Researchers in Vietnam Discovered That Two Deer Antlers Languishing in Museum Storage Are Actually 2,000-Year-Old Musical Instruments

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: ...
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Thirty Years Later, Ellen Fullman's 'The Long String Instrument' Still Resonates

About 30 years ago in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, there were 20 strings, 50 feet in length, slowly humming a composition by Ellen Fullman — she thinks. There might have been more strings; probably not ...