At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...

A balalaika is a triangle-shaped string instrument with a fretted neck, hollow body and three strings. Two of them are tuned to the same note and the third is tuned a perfect fourth higher. "Children ...

The banjo is a key instrument in Western folk music -- from US bluegrass to Irish trad -- and over the past 20 years, research into the roots of this three-stringed instrument have revealed its west ...

Since the first of our ancestors discovered that banging a stick on a hollow log makes a jolly sound, we hominids have been finding new and unusual ways to make music. We haven’t come close to tapping ...

The town of Pingyao, Shanxi province has an almost 300-year-history of story-telling tradition that uses stringed instruments, and dates back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The performance was ...

BEIJING, Sept 19 (Gwadar Pro) - "Pick up the three strings and set a tone, and all our guests will listen carefully..." A wave of storytelling emanated from the Northern Shaanxi Folk Song Museum. At ...