When James Talambas plays the long string instrument, he often imagines flying. The instrument is 60 feet long and features ...

Today's Beautiful Music is an introduction to the hurdy-gurdy. The unusual string instrument is played with a hand crank, and its ancestor -- the organistrum -- dates back at least to the 12th century ...

Trying to stand out as a musician in the 1980s was like trying to be the weirdest clown at clown school. And we mean that in the best of ways! The decade was full of strange and wonderful stuff. So, ...

Local players of stringed instruments are looking forward to the arrival in Tualatin of Bob Culbertson, a renowned musician who plays an unusual stringed instrument called the Chapman Stick.

On Saturday, May 9, the library will not host animals, but rather a variety of string instruments for children to explore and ...

Haymes calls himself a “utility infielder” in Ramblin Jug Stompers, responsible for many of the unusual sounds that don’t come from the typical stringed instruments in acoustic bands. At the band’s ...