As reconstructed, Queen Puabi's lyre is about 3.7 feet (1.1 meters ... In some ways, these ancient instruments were like modern guitars: Each string would have produced a different note when ...
Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi’s cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab, the national musical instrument of his homeland, took shape under his deft hands.
Larry Miller, left, and other staff members from Metronome Music drop off a donation of 55 stringed instruments to Malabar Intermediate. Also pictured is Malabar orchestra director Lindsay Brown, ...