Have you ever heard of a musical instrument called a lirone? It's a bowed string instrument in the lira family that was popularized in the 16th and 17th centuries. Today's Beautiful Music is an ...
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 ...
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 ...
On a tour of Germany, we presented a concert for the UNESCO Chairs and for the festival of music there, where we witnessed a German lady performing on the Esraj, an Indian instrument. Her playing was ...
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 ...