The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621. The first known instance of a composer ordering up plucking violins came just three years later. To musician and NPR cultural commentator Miles Hoffman, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NIKI VASILAKIS suspects she will spend her whole life paying off her Antonio Guadagnini violin. The 136-year-old instrument is more than ...

TOKYO -- A unique musical instrument similar to a traditional three-stringed Japanese shamisen, but smaller, lighter and easier to handle, has been developed by a small Tokyo manufacturer as a new ...

Music professor Chan Wing-wah picks up one of his most prized possessions to show Young Post: a guqin, or zither, a seven-string plucked instrument. Guqins date back to ancient times; Confucius played ...

Mbira/Sansi concerns the art of playing and making a traditional finger-plucking musical instrument in Malawi and Zimbabwe. The instrument consists of a wooden board with metal keys attached on top ...