I came across a fantastic instrument made in Vietnam. The sound’s sort of a cross between a harpsichord and an organ.” Weirdest: “In my mind, they’re all unusual because 12-strings aren ...

I was already quite familiar with the gayageum (12 string instrument) and the haegeum (2 string instrument, like a fiddle) but there are many more out there that many people are not familiar with. I ...

But it's also the string instruments.This piece uses them so well ... FRAN: The cello is sort ofthe violin's big brother and you can see that the stringis moving from side to side.

Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t ...

Given their acoustic instruments, Strings and Orner have worked to make the band’s sound and lights more punchy, but the ...