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: ...
After retiring from social work, Ken Arney wanted to pick up a hobby to fill his time. He picked up a few old music instruments, but instead of learning how to play them, he decided to give the ...
U-Penn Phd.D student Leening Liu works to align the bass in the CT scanner for. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to ...
Months ago, I gave my parents the thumbs-up to sell my cello, which I haven't picked up in 15 years. It was a gorgeous instrument with a rich soulful sound, a 1930s German cello that my father bought ...
PORT ANGELES — What can artists do with old stringed instruments? How about, what can’t they do? During the Second Weekend Art Event, catch a sneak peak of more than three dozen instruments that have ...
Origins: “My family was musical, and we grew up playing country and bluegrass and folk music, and I was interested in taking apart instruments,” KiLin Reece says about growing up in Bonny Doon, ...
"Ukelin" is one of the more common trade names of a type of stringed musical instrument marketed from the early 1920s until about 1965. Ukelins combine two sets of strings, one group of sixteen ...
A 2,000-year-old instrument - likely one of the oldest in Southeast Asia - was discovered in Vietnam, researchers say Photo from the journal Antiquity Two antlers sat tucked away in museum storage for ...