An annual music festival themed on bowed string instruments was held by the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts from Nov 13 to 17. [Photo provided to China Daily] An annual music festival themed ...

The art of crafting and playing Kamantcheh/Kamancha (‘little bow’), a bowed string instrument, has existed for over 1,000 years. In the Islamic Republic of Iran and Azerbaijan, it is a major element ...

A worker arranges violins at a workshop in Huangqiao Town of Taixing, east China's Jiangsu Province, Nov. 3, 2020. As a famed bowed string instruments manufacturing area in China, Huangqiao Town now ...

The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a transposing instrument and is ...

Last week, host Andrea Seabrook asked listeners to send in home recordings and photographs of their oddest musical instrument. The responses were eclectic, and some were indeed strange. Here is a ...

Farhad Nazari, the head of Registration of Historical Sites, told Mehrnews correspondent that the compilation on the Iranian bowed string instrument ‘Kamancheh’ has been sent to and received by the ...

At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...

On a tour of Germany, we presented a concert for the UNESCO Chairs and for the festival of music there, where we witnessed a German lady performing on the Esraj, an Indian instrument. Her playing was ...