Watch: Few people in the world can play this instrument. One of them is in Dallas

When James Talambas plays the long string instrument, he often imagines flying. The instrument is 60 feet long and features ...
WGAL

AANHPI Heritage Month: Students get in touch with their culture by playing traditional Korean instruments

I PLAY TWO STRINGED INSTRUMENTS AND. ONE DRUM. NINE YEAR OLD LILY IS PLAYING AN INSTRUMENT THAT KOREANS HAVE PLAYED SINCE THE SIXTH CENTURY SILLA PERIOD. BUSTLE. APPROXIMATELY 1500 YEARS AGO. LILY HAS ...
Hackaday

string instrument

There are some that enjoy the human element of a musical performance, delighting in the unique way an artist teases the desired sound from their instruments. Then there are those of us who listen to ...
Chicago Tribune

Elgin teacher making house calls to fix students’ broken instrument strings: ‘They need playing as an outlet’

When a student breaks a string on their violin, viola, cello or bass in class, orchestra teacher Jennifer Brown-James replaces it right away so they can keep practicing and playing. So, what to do ...
KQED

Thirty Years Later, Ellen Fullman's 'The Long String Instrument' Still Resonates

About 30 years ago in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, there were 20 strings, 50 feet in length, slowly humming a composition by Ellen Fullman — she thinks. There might have been more strings; probably not ...
The Cheat Sheet

Prince George Has a New Musical Hobby Playing a String Instrument

Prince George may still be very young, but he has a pretty extraordinary life that the rest of us couldn’t even begin to imagine. As the future king, Prince George has never known anything different ...
The Arts Desk

Beare's Chamber Music Festival, Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall review - stellar string playing

The two evening concerts of the festival both culminated in the performance of a major work with Janine Jansen in the first violin chair. One hesitates to say ‘leader’s chair’ in a chamber music ...