A music festival with a difference is coming to Dorset. The Dorchester Dulcimer Weekend, happening on Saturday and Sunday, is based around the unusual stringed instrument of the same name. Festival ...

Local players of stringed instruments are looking forward to the arrival in Tualatin of Bob Culbertson, a renowned musician who plays an unusual stringed instrument called the Chapman Stick.

The beautifully crafted guzheng, which dates back 3,000 years have 21 strings – hence the name of the ensemble at the Eisteddfod The accomplished young player of an ancient Chinese string instrument ...

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 ...