If you are planning to learn a new string instrument, there are plenty of options for you to choose from. With string instruments for beginners available in both Indian and western instruments, you ...

Arturia has kicked off its new ‘Augmented’ music software series with a free plugin, Augmented Strings Intro. This hybrid instrument combines sampled strings with synth engines to create “an entirely ...

Apple GarageBand 1.3 (for iPad) remains a stunner, with excellent sound quality, expressive new string instruments, and just enough note editing to be truly useful for composing and recording music.

Is it a viola da gamba or a viola da spalla? Or perhaps on second glance, it could even be a viola pomposa? Even if you’re a string player, you might find this tough... The string section of a ...

Although their bellies are made from a 1,000 year old piece of wood, the two violins, a viola and cello made in Orange in central-west New South Wales are nearly brand new and have almost never been ...

To non-musicians I’m sure that steel-string and nylon-string guitars probably look almost indistinguishable – they’re just acoustic guitars. However, anyone who has listened to both side-by-side will ...

Is a bowed string instrument. Is played sitting on the floor, like the sarangi, but has frets, like a sitar. Has a number of sympathetic and drone strings.

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 ...

When worshippers arrive at Salem Lutheran Church in Tomball for Christmas Eve services, they'll enter more than a sanctuary. They'll be stepping into a musical instrument. Its strings will span the ...