"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three large abstract sculptures have recently arrived at the rooftop garden of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for ...

I was already quite familiar with the gayageum (12 string instrument) and the haegeum (2 string ... The gayageum is the most widely used traditional Korean musical instrument due to its clear tone.

The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched of the string instrument family. Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical ...

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 ...

A violin is the highest pitched string instrument and a double ... Orchestration is the process of combining different instruments together, within your musical composition. There are lots of ...