Visit any local farmers market, summer festival or coffee-house jam session, and you’ll likely see adults making music with fiddles, banjos and mandolins. It’s no surprise, then, that Vermont kids ...

Anyone interested in learning to play a string instrument should go to the orientation Tuesday for the University of South Carolina String Project. The String Project provides instruction in violin, ...

Some of the most famous and recognizable tunes and compositions like Beethoven’s For Elise for example, beautiful as they are, do not require a virtuoso on any of the 7 hardest instruments to play.

Mastering a musical instrument is no easy task. Musicians spend countless hours perfecting their skills, especially on stringed instruments such as the violin. Some people even want to imitate the ...

As an instrumental music teacher in the Antioch school district in the early 1980s Betty Lawrence saw a need for outside sources for teaching students string instruments. She understood that the short ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

When a student breaks a string on their violin, viola, cello or bass in class, orchestra teacher Jennifer Brown-James replaces it right away so they can keep practicing and playing. So, what to do ...

I PLAY TWO STRINGED INSTRUMENTS AND. ONE DRUM. NINE YEAR OLD LILY IS PLAYING AN INSTRUMENT THAT KOREANS HAVE PLAYED SINCE THE SIXTH CENTURY SILLA PERIOD. BUSTLE. APPROXIMATELY 1500 YEARS AGO. LILY HAS ...