"Ukelin" is one of the more common trade names of a type of stringed musical instrument marketed from the early 1920s until about 1965. Ukelins combine two sets of strings, one group of sixteen ...

This is the multichord, a one-string musical instrument built by [Christopher Mitchell]. The string is a 20 pound mono-filament thread stretched between a wooden bridge and the read/write head of ...

The sound is “sweet” and “flexible,” according to Ken Slowik, the curator of musical instruments at the National Museum of American History. The violin—which came to the Smithsonian on ...

Created by artist Jennie C. Jones, the new exhibition features a trio of towering musical instruments made from concrete and aluminum ...

Thin strings vibrate quickly ... DULL MUTED TWANG "It doesn't really make muchof a musical instrument does it?" Although it does make a sound it's just not loud enough. Now what we need to ...

So, let's pack our bags as we travel around the globe to learn about musical instruments of the world. A sitar is a string instrument that comes from Northern India. It's quite a large instrument ...