The art of lutherie, or the making of stringed instruments, is a beautiful blend of craftsmanship and musicality. This ...

Stringed instruments make noise from the vibrations of tuned strings, using acoustic or electronic means to amplify those vibrations to the point where they’re loud enough to hear. The strings ...

After attending that one incredible evening to mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Canada and Korea, titled “Love’s Mosaic” and featuring traditional Korean music and pansori, I ...

Janusz Wawrowski, a professor of music and a violinist, is using the only Stradivarius violin in Poland to showcase the works ...

That's brilliant! Dum-dum-dum-DUM! But it's also the string instruments.This piece uses them so well. They just bring real feelingto a piece of music. But they play such differentsounds as well.

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

The Museum's music collections contain more than 5,000 instruments of American and European heritage. These include a quartet of 18th-century Stradivari stringed instruments, Tito Puente's autographed ...