A documentary is in the works on a local musician who makes and plays a unique instrument – the canjoe. “CanJoe” John VanArsdall, a longtime fiddler, has been making canjoes for more than 20 years and ...

Can a single string produce sound? Yes, a single string really can. The Jing ethnic group's single-stringed instrument, through the plucking of its string by the fingertips, weaves the breath of the ...

Since the first of our ancestors discovered that banging a stick on a hollow log makes a jolly sound, we hominids have been finding new and unusual ways to make music. We haven’t come close to tapping ...

Ever stumbled across a sound that made you stop in your tracks? Maybe it was something ancient and unfamiliar, yet strangely captivating. While guitars and pianos dominate stages worldwide, there’s a ...

Sitar player Ravi Shankar died Tuesday at the age of 92. Brian Q. Silver, a sitar player with over 40 years of experience, talks about playing the unique instrument and how Shankar popularized the ...