This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

Go Heung-gon was busy winding silk threads to make a batch of 12 that he would need for the “gayageum” or 12-stringed Korean zither. He worked constantly, even as he answered the phone, received ...

What do you expect to hear and see when you attend a concert given by an erhu virtuoso? "I want those with a general idea of the erhu to put aside their impressions, and I hope those who have never ...

The octobass is a huge stringed instrument that is twice the size of a double bass when standing, about 3.6 meters, and the strings cannot be pressed as they are, so the strings are pressed with a ...

Bordering nations often share a common food or musical heritage that develops as a process of mutual influences. Mongolia, with its rich and distinctive musical traditions, is bordered by Russia in ...

Tarawangsawelas perform a contemporary version of Tarawangsa, the sacred traditional music of Sundanese West Java, and will release a new album, entitled Wanci, next month via Rabih Beaini’s Morphine ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...