Currently up for $50,000 in funding on Kickstarter, the Wheelharp delivers the sounds of a chamber string orchestra via a keyboard and a full chromatic set of real strings. Oh, and it's pretty much ...

Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...

CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

The Valdosta Symphony Guild will present Tunes for Tots on Saturday, Jan. 24, in Valdosta State University’s Whitehead ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Members of the Second String Orchestra arrived at an outreach performance at Manhattan Bible ...

Jonah Van Bourg's cello sounds infinitely more mellow these days. And ever since the graffiti was removed, it looks better, too. Dismayed by the dreary tone and beaten-up look of a ragtag collection ...

A group of youngsters in red silk Mandarin-collared shirts are plucking, beating or blowing into Asian musical instruments that generate delicately trembling and airy melodies. The young musicians ...