At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...

THE music of the hammered dulcimer is enchanting, said Peggy Carter, longtime music instructor, author and performer. "Playing the dulcimer has added so much to my life," she said. The hammered, or ...

Kendall Isadore, Dawn Johnson and Élise Sharp — will take the stage Friday, Jan. 16, at the Hope Center for the Arts on ...

When we think about rock music, we can agree it's a genre most commonly plied and voiced via the instrument of electric guitar. While rock and the guitar are not mutually exclusive, and the insights ...

The Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival returns to Pittsburgh this weekend. Microtonal music, according to festival organizers, “expands the possibilities of sound by using tuning systems beyond, or in ...

Ellen Fullman is sheltering in place with the 40-string, 45-foot-long droning instrument she created decades ago. The sound artist Ellen Fullman near her home in Berkeley, Calif.Credit...Erin ...

The UMass Lowell String Project is a music education and community engagement initiative housed in the Department of Music that provides music instruction to students grades 3-12 from the Merrimack ...

Origins: “My family was musical, and we grew up playing country and bluegrass and folk music, and I was interested in taking apart instruments,” KiLin Reece says about growing up in Bonny Doon, ...