Vietnam is home to 54 ethnic groups, each with its own customs and traditions. Those groups have created a variety of traditional musical instruments, which have played an important role in Vietnamese ...

This is the sixth ina series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of instrument ...

VietNamNet Bridge – Dan bau, made from a dried gourd, a metal string, a wooden rod and a sound board, has been part of Vietnamese culture and society for hundreds of years. VietNamNet Bridge – Dan bau ...

The Seoul-born gayageum player DoYeon Kim has become an in-demand collaborator for some of the biggest innovators in improvised music. The Seoul-born gayageum player DoYeon Kim has become an in-demand ...

Surely we’ve all played some bass riffs on a stretched-out rubber band before, right? [Nicolas Bras] found that the ultimate musical rubber bands are bungee cords, and used seven of them to build a ...

Anne Prinz of Moline practices with the zither ensemble at the German American Heritage Center in downtown Davenport, Saturday, December 5, 2009. (Crista Chapman/QUAD-CITY TIMES) Zither virtuoso Tomy ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...