Well, you are only about a millennium behind the times. But never fear. Opportunities to hear this ancient Chinese two-stringed instrument known for it’s plaintive humanlike tone are on the upswing. A ...

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Posts on Hackaday sometimes trend a little bit retro, but rarely do we cover hacks that reach back into the Bronze Age. Still, when musician [Peter Pringle] put out a video detailing how he replicated ...

"The better it is crafted, the more remarkable its journey becomes," says Siam, founder of "Osiris Guitars", Bangladesh's only electric guitar brand. He is also the country's first and only luthier – ...

Guitars have always connected Josh Rieck to the people around him. Surrounded by racks of wood and equipment and musical instruments in various stages of repair, there is evidence of a rich community ...

Most anyone who has half-seriously picked up a stringed-instrument is familiar with those gigantic guitar chain stores. They're the places where the high-pressure sales force is only slightly less ...

Every classical musician who plays a stringed instrument at one time or another has awakened from much the same nightmare: They open their violin or cello case to take out their precious instrument, ...

Almost anything can be a musical instrument. A horse’s jawbone? A couple of rocks, a stick, and some string? An armadillo shell? A box with a constantly buzzing antenna sticking out of it? Something ...

It doesn't look like the guitars worn by rock gods of old. In fact, it doesn't look much like a traditional instrument at all. But to those who know what they're looking at, this strange collection of ...

A master of the viola da gamba and other stringed instruments, she was a central part of the early-music scene. By Neil Genzlinger Judith Davidoff, who mastered an assortment of stringed instruments ...