Under the watchful eye of federal marshals, the Smithsonian permitted many millions of dollars worth of Stradivarius violins out of the vault and out on the town on Friday night, on behalf of the Year ...

Humans played the very first instruments thousands of years ago — 42,000 or 43,000 years ago, to be as exact as possible. The oldest known instruments are flutes carved from bird bone and mammoth ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Like a rolling stone, a traveling guitar museum is searching for a home. The National Guitar Museum features ancient stringed instruments from Persia, the first electric guitar, and ...

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: ...

Originating nearly 2,500 years ago, the guzheng is a traditional Chinese zither, a stringed instrument featuring up to 21 movable strings and bridges. The ancient instrument was the exact piece ...

White-collar workers learn playing the guqin (Chinese zither) at You Huang Li guqin salon. Nowadays, more and more white collars in pursuit of a slow life show great interest in traditional Chinese ...

Chinese archaeologists working in Hubei province’s Zaoyang City have unearthed an ancient stringed instrument dating back thousands of years. It’s said to be the earliest ever found in China. Above: a ...

Music is universal across all civilisations, both ancient and modern, and stands as one of the great joys of life. Another joy is that many of the oldest songs and instruments can be played hundreds, ...

Casually, like well-bred amateurs, the ten musicians adjusted lights and music racks, then began to play Handel’s Concerto Grosso in G Major. There was nothing casual, nothing amateurish about their ...

Ever stumbled across a sound that made you stop in your tracks? Maybe it was something ancient and unfamiliar, yet strangely ...