Wood has been used for thousands of years for the making of stringed musical instruments. Primitive harps were in existence in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia as far back as 3,000 B.C. Other ancient ...

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To capture the essence of Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio,” on Netflix Dec. 9, composer Alexandre Desplat came up with an ingenious idea: a score performed only with wood instruments. “I always like ...

Guillermo del Toro’s movies are always masterclasses in worldbuilding. Even at their most fantastical, his settings remain connected to our world and feel like real places you could actually visit.

The lordly violin and its less illustrious relatives in the string family are in trouble. As today’s concert halls grow more cavernous, it becomes increasingly difficult for a solo violinist to ...

This is the ninth 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 ...