Since moving to Chicago 25 years ago, Rockford-born bassist Matt Ulery has put out 15 albums of originals. His next is ...

It hasn’t always had a place in orchestral music, but since the 19th century composers like Ravel and Debussy have been in love with the instrument and its unique, resonant sound. The modern concert ...

In the midst of balancing textbooks for his philosophy classes and the steep responsibilities of being chair of the ...

Jennie C Jones has planted three massive instruments, played by the wind, on the roof of the Met Museum in New York.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled “Ensemble,” a site-responsive installation by artist Jennie C. Jones at a recent press conference.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Essay Expanding my instrument ... from the string, to operate properly. Three days and several hundreds of dollars worth of harp strings later ...

The shapes are contemporary interpretations of string instruments featured in The Met’s collection—a trapezoidal zither; a tall Aeolian harp; and a doubled, leaning one-string. The forms are angular, ...

An architect in Chennai works on recreating the ‘yazh' or the ancient Tamil harp, an instrument of the common man and the royals, using only descriptions from 2,500-year-old Sangam texts.

a harp luthiery. “A luthiery is any place that builds stringed-instruments, so we build harps,” said Pamela Rees, CEO of Rees Harps, Inc. For more on this topic, tune in to "Great Day TV" on ...

Kouxian, or ancient jaw harp, is the earliest string instrument that has been found in China. By placing kouxian between the ...

But what about otherstring instruments? A guitar works by either ... This is my mini harp. It's a string instrumentand it goes from long strings right down to short strings just like the piano.