Stringed instruments make noise from the vibrations of tuned strings, using acoustic or electronic means to amplify those vibrations to the point where they’re loud enough to hear. The strings ...

"Ukelin" is one of the more common trade names of a type of stringed musical instrument marketed from the early 1920s until about 1965. Ukelins combine two sets of strings, one group of sixteen ...

Thin strings vibrate quickly ... DULL MUTED TWANG "It doesn't really make muchof a musical instrument does it?" Although it does make a sound it's just not loud enough. Now what we need to ...

I was already quite familiar with the gayageum (12 string instrument) and the haegeum (2 string instrument ... The gayageum is the most widely used traditional Korean musical instrument due to its ...

So, let's pack our bags as we travel around the globe to learn about musical instruments of the world. A sitar is a string instrument that comes from Northern India. It's quite a large instrument ...

Endangered musical instruments like Rashan Chowki, Purni Baja, Tubki, Dhol Piphi, Naradi Mridang and Santhali Manar can be ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched of the string instrument family. Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical ...

This area of research is particularly important for string instruments, cymbals, and other musical devices, as it helps to understand the complex interactions between materials, geometry ...

A year ago, researchers realized that the ancient antlers were actually stringed musical instruments, making them the earliest known devices used for music in the region. The antlers are 13.7 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Sitarmakers of Miraj, India, have been crafting musical instruments out of pumpkins for almost 200 years. They are known for making the tanpura, a string ...