THE challenge for players of musical instruments is to come as close as possible to matching song, since the most expressive musical medium is the human voice. THE challenge for players of musical ...

An annual music festival themed on bowed string instruments was held by the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts from Nov 13 to 17. [Photo provided to China Daily] An annual music festival themed ...

The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a transposing instrument and is ...

A worker arranges violins at a workshop in Huangqiao Town of Taixing, east China's Jiangsu Province, Nov. 3, 2020. As a famed bowed string instruments manufacturing area in China, Huangqiao Town now ...

Farhad Nazari, the head of Registration of Historical Sites, told Mehrnews correspondent that the compilation on the Iranian bowed string instrument ‘Kamancheh’ has been sent to and received by the ...

The art of crafting and playing Kamantcheh/Kamancha (‘little bow’), a bowed string instrument, has existed for over 1,000 years. In the Islamic Republic of Iran and Azerbaijan, it is a major element ...

A music professor has identified what he believes to be a rare image of Leonardo da Vinci in a 500-year-old engraving. Carved by Italian artist Marcantonio Raimondi in 1505, it shows da Vinci playing ...