The octobass is a huge stringed instrument that is twice the size of a double bass when standing, about 3.6 meters, and the strings cannot be pressed as they are, so the strings are pressed with a ...

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: ...

This is the sixth ina series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of instrument ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

Simon Stanbridge can make stringed instruments out of anything — from baked bean tins to cheese boxes. "I just can't help myself; I think I'm up to about 125 [instruments]," he told Firas Massouh on ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Being on the receiving end of a set of valuable new musical instruments is always cause for celebration ...