A number of instruments played by famous folk artists, along with those of less-known and unknown artists, are housed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. National Museum of ...

The contemporary Polish folk group Warsaw Village Band has made some great music using this instrument, the strings of which one plays by rotating a built-in wheel with a crank. Cart Rattle from the ...

Bryan, Charles Faulkner. "American Folk Instruments: The Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer." Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 18 (March 1952): 1-5. Heaton, C.P. "The Five-String Banjo in North Carolina ...

The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched of the string instrument family. Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical ...

And I mentioned four instruments,” Geslison said ... Each year, Mountain Strings tours with the BYU International Folk Dance Ensemble. “I love watching the other people in Mountain Strings ...

Both are simple, stringed instruments played by wandering musicians and storytellers, producing a raw, resonant sound that ...

The modern concert pedal harp is very different to the stringed instrument used to accompany Irish folk music, or the first versions of it found in 2500 BC. It is more powerful and richer in tone, ...