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 ...
Frank Ford wearing his “trademark” Hawaiian shirt, hard at work repairing a guitar. Photo courtesy Michael Simmons. Frank Ford, the co-founder of Gryphon Stringed Instruments and a beloved member of ...
Welcome back to First news this evening. It's the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California but we are talking about ways you can celebrate music history right here in the Metro. Especially right now.
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 Skylight Theatre's latest show, Fiddler on the Roof, perhaps the most powerful piece of storytelling is truly instrumental. Two violins, played both on and off stage, survived the Holocaust. They ...
The College of Music’s Thompson Jazz Studies Program is excited to announce the addition of Applied Jazz Strings—taught by recent alumna and current Jazz Studies Lecturer Enion Pelta-Tiller—to the ...