Yo-Yo Ma’s instrument of choice is a 300-year-old Stradivarius cello. But you can’t accompany a Mongolian long song on a Strad. For that, you need a morin khuur. It has a long thin neck, a trapezoidal ...

Though he had studied classical music from the age of 3, and cello from the time he was 9, Rushad Eggleston wasn’t married to either. During Eggleston’s teens, the cello would spend months at a time ...

We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...

While working on her doctoral thesis, cellist Saskia Rao-de Haas remembers chancing on a 1932 letter from Rabindranath Tagore to his granddaughter. There is an instrument, he says, that he prefers ...

CHARLESTON, W. Va (Reuters Life!) - Harold Hayslett had a career as a pipefitter and fought in France in World War II, but he's famous for carving cherished cellos and violins from the trees of ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Two-time Grammy winner Rodney Crowell arrives at the historic Opera House in ...

Ivonne Hernandez moved to Limerick, Ireland, last year in order to study Irish traditional music and dance. The move made perfect sense for the Belmont grad, who picked up the fiddle at the age of ...