This giant bass lute can be over 6 feet long, typically has 14 or so strings and is characterised by it’s rich but clear sound, an ideal accompaniment to the human voice Towards the end of the 16th ...

Your article about the Pierre Auger Observatory contains an inaccuracy of which your readers should be aware (17 May, p 9). At present, just over 2 per cent of the Southern Observatory has been ...

The most beautiful instrument that 60 Minutes producer Michael Gavshon found when he visited the child orchestra of Cateura, Paraguay, was a cello. The body of the cello was fashioned out of an oil ...

Built by Godin, Grace is red, has a mirrored pickguard, an HSS Mojotone pickup configuration, comes with the choice of tremolo systems and is a Reverb exclusive limited to 200 units worldwide When you ...

Have you ever seen a picture or painting of an instrument and thought, “What the heck is that?” Join us as we count down our top ten most weird and wonderful instruments. A shimmering, ethereal and ...

“How come we’ve never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?” This was posted by a first-year college student to my world music course discussion board recently. He voiced what many of his ...