Hawaii Business

My Job Is Repairing Rare Stringed Instruments

Origins: “My family was musical, and we grew up playing country and bluegrass and folk music, and I was interested in taking apart instruments,” KiLin Reece says about growing up in Bonny Doon, ...

Kernersville man gives old instruments a time to shine

After retiring from social work, Ken Arney wanted to pick up a hobby to fill his time. He picked up a few old music instruments, but instead of learning how to play them, he decided to give the ...
Artnet

Researchers in Vietnam Discovered That Two Deer Antlers Languishing in Museum Storage Are Actually 2,000-Year-Old Musical Instruments

The artifacts represent the earliest-known stringed instruments found in Southeast Asia. A reconstruction of the chordophone, crafted out of deer antler. Photo: Antiquity (2023). DOI: ...
WHYY

Penn researchers are using CT scanning to unlock the secrets of centuries-old basses and string instruments

U-Penn Phd.D student Leening Liu works to align the bass in the CT scanner for. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to ...
Las Vegas News on MSN

7 forgotten instruments revived by modern musicians

It’s hard to say for sure, but something special happens when an old instrument meets contemporary creativity. These aren’t ...
Times Union

Classical Notes: A retiree reignites passion for music, with strings attached

16th size violin at Shaker Violin Repair. From his homestead on the icy southern banks of the Mohawk River in Latham, Stephen Iachetta is building his second career running Shaker Violin Repair.
NPR

A music director goes public with a secret stash of private instruments

Crisp, warm, responsive. The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is on a journey to meet these benchmarks under the baton of music director Gianandrea Noseda. One of the ways in which he's shaping a new ...
IFLScience

A 2,000-Year-Old Antler In Vietnam May Be Oldest Music Instrument Of Its Kind

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The Columbian

Music World in Hazel Dell hosts recycling event to keep guitar strings, more out of landfills

Matt Gohlke, the co-owner and general manager of Music World in Hazel Dell, hardly thought about how he disposed of his instruments’ old strings until recently. He learned an estimated 1.5 million ...
CBS News

Colorado music family suffers Christmas fire loss and musical community steps in to help

At Mi Vida Strings in Westminster the Christmas season brings a busy time. More people looking for stringed instruments or help in repairing them. It was really a bad time for the Trujillo family to ...
PBS

The Violin in the String Family of the Orchestra

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...