Recreating the forms and sounds of historical musical instruments

What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In ...

Tree Rings Reveal Origins of Some of the World’s Best Violins

A study of over 275 violins suggests that Antonio Stradivari used wood from high-altitude forests in northern Italy to craft ...

Composer Alexandre Desplat on Fiction and Function in Frankenstein’s Score

Frankenstein composer Alexandre Desplat knows one of his scores is working when it makes Guillermo del Toro cry. “He’s very The post Composer Alexandre Desplat on Fiction and Function in ...

T-Bone Walker’s Gibson ES-5N helped give rise to electric blues – and it’s been listed for $2 million

T-Bone Walker’s iconic 1949 Gibson ES-5N has been listed on Reverb for a whopping $2 million. The Texas-born guitarist helped pioneer the electric blues during the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, inspiring ...
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Asian Story Theatre tells how the Mongolian stringed instrument morin khuur got to be shaped like a horse

Sponsored by the Chinese Women’s Association and written and produced by Kent Brisby and Gingerlily Lowe of Asian Story ...