There are lots of uncommon musical instruments such as the Balalaika a stringed instrument from medieval ... Take the cello-horn, for example, the name is self-explanatory as it’s an ...

The strings of this instrument are played with a metal plectrum, while the bridge is made of a flat horn. A gubguba is a percussion string instrument and it either has dried gourd or wooden ...

Horns up for the hurdy-gurdy. The quirky Renaissance instrument proves it’s a match for heavy metal band, System of the Down. What happens when you combine a popular, boxy, Renaissance string ...

Blackson started working with Frank Machos, the arts director of the School District of Philadelphia, to compile a list of every neglected horn, woodwind, stringed instrument, and piece of ...

Latin “vitula” was the word for a stringed instrument, such as a lyre ... Brass: “Trumpet” is from Old French “trompette,” for a tube-like musical instrument. “French horn” is ultimately from the ...

and on the string instruments. There were various horns that were played — made out of bone — and there were flutes. So even though we could not bring the physical instruments, we came with ...

It also has a long history in Chinese musical instruments – so much so that the Mandarin term sizhu, which translates as “silk and bamboo”, refers to string and wind musical instruments.

As far as the set list is concerned, the ukulele club’s musical prowess -- Don Ho be damned -- belies the four-stringed instrument’s image. Wooley said the biggest misconception is that the ...

One of the event’s highlights is Ellen Fullman’s Long String Instrument installation, with dozens of tuned wires stretched 50 or more feet. “Playing my instrument is like walking or swimming ...

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: 10.15184/aqy.