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 ...

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 ...

FRAN SCOTT: I love this piece. In fact I think it was the first bitof classical music that I ever heard. GREG FOOT: Ah yes Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. It's got the best startto any piece of music ever ...

So you think you know your string instruments? Take our quiz to see if you can name all 40 instruments in three minutes. Test your musical knowledge with our incredibly serious quiz: how many string ...