With many musical instruments, you can tell by looking at them that they have a story to tell. From every dent to discoloring, a music shop in Dexter focuses on keeping the history of stringed ...

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: ...

The history of stringed instruments goes back as far as 3,000 BCE, according to musicologist Richard Dumbrill, who has found evidence of lute-like instruments in Mesopotamian paintings. Millennia ...

When we think about rock music, we can agree it's a genre most commonly plied and voiced via the instrument of electric guitar. While rock and the guitar are not mutually exclusive, and the insights ...

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 ...

In a Perspective, Paolo Cherubini highlights the value of dendrochronology – an objective and nondestructive method – in assessing the authenticity of musical string instruments. Stringed instruments, ...

• 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 ...

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 ...