The World on a String

When did the guitar come to China ?   Western missionaries may have brought lutes, vihuelas and other guitar-like instruments to par...

Last November (2009), the US Fish and Wildlife Service raided the Nashville offices of Gibson Guitars and hauled off computers, guitars and...

I had the dubious good fortune to take three girls under twelve (my daughters and a friend) to see the "Jonas Brothers 3D Concert Exper...

兰 草音乐 In an article on the "reform" of traditional Chinese musical instruments (周大风 "民族乐器的改革," > 2001: 3), the musico...

It's the 190th anniversary of the first performance of Silent Night (Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht) in Obendorf, Austria, 1818. According ...

In many ways, this image sums up what I am trying to do with this blog (and in the book I'm working on). The pipa is a short-necked bo...

Throughout history, billions of strings have been plucked, bowed or hammered on citarras, pandouras, violins, pipas, biwas, đàn tỳ bàs, ba...