"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 ...

The sound is “sweet” and “flexible,” according to Ken Slowik, the curator of musical instruments at the National Museum of American History. The violin—which came to the Smithsonian on ...

Jennie C Jones has planted three massive instruments, played by the wind, on the roof of the Met Museum in New York.

The global Musical Instrument Market is set to experience significant growth over the next decade, with an expected industry ...

Faiella, the owner of The Frewsbarber Shop does a lot more than styling and cutting hair – he also dubs as a luthier of sorts, for stringed, musical instruments. At the back of the barbershop, is ...

Frohlich, 64, and now a research anthropologist at the National Museum of Natural History, is still fascinated with musical instruments ... violins and other stringed instruments—by Stradivari ...

Sounds can be made by twanging a string, blowing down a pipe, banging something together, and scraping or shaking something. There are three families of musical instruments: string, wind and ...

Photo courtesy Michael Simmons. Frank Ford, the co-founder of Gryphon Stringed Instruments and a beloved member of the Palo Alto musicians’ community, died after a brief illness on Sunday ...