Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. How does a grand piano make such a beautiful sound? Piano technician Ara Vartoukian explains by pulling ...

A few years ago Gibson began introducing some clever new technology to a select few guitars which automatically tuned the instrument and kept it there (seen most recently in the gorgeous Firebird X).

You’ve heard of violin strings snapping mid-performance. Now, get ready to watch a grand piano string fly off its pin, like an over-exerted elastic band. The video below, seen over 100,000 times on ...

A celebration of all things piano and string through chamber music collaborations, performance classes, creative workshops and a closing showcase concert in intimate Thompson Recital Hall! Open to ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The chamber works Elgar wrote in the immediate aftermath of the first world war were, astonishingly, his first ...

Just listen to the incredible, deep sound of this beast of a piano, which is twice the length of a concert hall Steinway. A few years ago New Zealand piano builder Adrian Alexander Mann fancied a ...

If you have never come across a Kelstone before, it’s a 9-stringed fretted instrument which you play with both hands on top of the fretboard. If you can play the piano, you shouldn’t have many ...

Composers over the centuries have utilized music written by their predecessors as building blocks in their own works, whether Brahms’s “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” Mozart’s “Variations on a Theme ...

This 3xCD set features a trio of 1970s compositions from the minimalist pianist, a contemporary of Terry Riley and Steve Reich. Save this story Save this story In the liner notes for the new 3xCD set ...