Cast and crew breathing and vocalizing together. Banging giant metal plates in a London warehouse. Inventing impressionistic vocal colors for the Elizabethan era. Hiring a 90-piece orchestra to ...

Today's Beautiful Music is an introduction to the hurdy-gurdy. The unusual string instrument is played with a hand crank, and its ancestor -- the organistrum -- dates back at least to the 12th century ...

Local players of stringed instruments are looking forward to the arrival in Tualatin of Bob Culbertson, a renowned musician who plays an unusual stringed instrument called the Chapman Stick.

Haymes calls himself a “utility infielder” in Ramblin Jug Stompers, responsible for many of the unusual sounds that don’t come from the typical stringed instruments in acoustic bands. At the band’s ...

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: ...