The world's oldest orchestral music, gagaku was imported from mainland China in ancient times. The melody is not based on a ...

Goh is very busy during concert season and loves attending concerts once he is done tuning the instruments before each recital. On the stairs of his workshop there is a beautiful display of an ancient ...

His music draws attention, as does the instrument he plays it on. “The mountain dulcimer is technically part of the zither family, and a zither is any stringed instrument where the strings go ...

The qanun is a traditional Middle Eastern stringed instrument. It has a long history, possibly descended from the ancient Egyptian harp, and is related to the psaltery, dulcimer and zither.

Jocelyn Clark, an Alaska-born professor of East Asian studies at Pai Chai University in Daejeon, remembers the first time she heard a performance of the ...