This is the sixth in a 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 ...

At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...

Today, however, farmers of Udaynarayanpur, faced with adversities, have stopped growing the variety of bottle gourds that are used to make these instruments. “The gourd used in making tanpura, sitar ...

But through formal training and trial and error, the Hot Springs resident has become just that: A budding expert in the field of making or repairing stringed instruments such as guitars and violins.