Eight decades after the 1709 violin known as the "Small Mendelssohn" disappeared, experts think they've located it in Japan ...

Meineke didn’t find anything in the orthodox research of stringed-instrument acoustics that was of much use to him. Some of the pioneering work by the German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz in ...

The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched of the string instrument family. Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical ...

Stringed instruments make noise from the vibrations of tuned strings, using acoustic or electronic means to amplify those vibrations to the point where they’re loud enough to hear.

Exploring the Chinese zither and erhu, ‘2-stringed barbarian instrument’ a bit like violin Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for ...

String. A violin is the highest pitched string instrument and a double bass is the lowest pitched string instrument found in an orchestra. Image caption, Brass.