If you were to travel to the Andes mountains of South America, you might encounter a small string instrument called a charango. At first glance, it looks a bit like a mandolin or ukulele with ten ...

Origins: “My family was musical, and we grew up playing country and bluegrass and folk music, and I was interested in taking apart instruments,” KiLin Reece says about growing up in Bonny Doon, ...

• View this story alongside more photos, a slideshow and a video. When Frank Ford and Richard Johnston first met as college students back in the 1960s, introduced by a mutual friend, it was evident ...

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: ...

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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Workshops at the Ukulele Festival include programs for Beginners; ...

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 ...

The stringed instrument type list includes over a dozen defaults, including electric and acoustic guitars, ukuleles, mandolin, banjo and lap steel. The motor here isn't designed to tackle bass guitars ...