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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

Analyses of 17th-century stringed instruments suggest that a young Antonio Stradivari might have apprenticed with a particular craftsman. By Katherine Kornei History is revealed in tree rings. They ...