After spending decades trying to emulate the guitar, it might have been easier just to pick one up and learn how to play ...

It also tracks all the way down to 16Hz, so should handle tuning a five-string bass without issue. It’s got an assuring 6 hours of battery life and is rechargeable via USB-C, so no digging ...

One of the exemplars of demonstrating the creative scope of MPE for musical expression, Expressive E has just launched a new tranche of meticulously-modelled software instruments. Dubbed Soliste, this ...

Since 2019, Noseda has been quietly loaning 17th - 19th century Italian string instruments from his private collection to the NSO. The musicians playing them had no idea that they came from their ...

String instruments have a long history in civilization, helping humans make more complex and beautiful music. We wonder what our forebears would think of this guitar strummed with 1000 picks ...

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 ...

The slow bloom of the “Molto adagio” from George Walker’s 1946 String Quartet No. 1 opened the evening. More readily recognized as the “Lyric” from a later arrangement for string ...

Thompson is a “luthier,” a craftsperson who builds and repairs stringed instruments that are played with a bow or plucked. The term originated in the Renaissance to describe makers of lutes.

When It Comes to String Instruments, Stradivariuses Are Still Pitch Perfect Even after three centuries of their existence, the violins spark debate over what makes their sound special.

On all of the other instruments, Africans reinterpreted performance on them. [Pianists] Oscar Peterson, Jelly Roll [Morton], [Thelonius] Monk, Randy Weston and others reinterpreted the playing of ...

Thompson is a “luthier,” a craftsperson who builds and repairs stringed instruments that are played with a bow or plucked. The term originated in the Renaissance to describe makers of lutes.