As well as turning out a stellar series of free instruments under the Vaults banner, Crow Hill has been gradually building up ...

Most of the other musicians jamming this evening also play the Appalachian (or mountain) dulcimer. But others play a ...

Now 60 and a Grammy-winning artist, Ivers will bring her talents to the stage at the James Hugh Powers Hall, on the second ...

From ancient bagpipes to modern synthesisers, we trace the origins of 25 musical instruments across continents. It explores ...

Tim Arbisi has been tuning pianos for a quarter century, traveling the world and helping some legendary acts.

The tabla produces musical harmony like a string instrument, something physics said was impossible for drums. CV Raman's 1920 ...

Endo Schlaffer will move her harp into Moody Performance Hall to perform Claude Debussy’s Danse sacrée et danse profane as ...

The grungy, extraterrestrial “Mk.gee tone” is everywhere and depends on a decades-old device.

I hadn’t touched a mandolin since adolescence, and, even then, I’d only fooled around. My wife was beside me. “Do it,” she ...

Ever since leaving Turtle Island Quartet in 2012 in the wake of the string ensemble’s two Grammy Awards, Mads Tolling has ...

Owner Harvey Kertzman longed for the soulful music of a viola and had mounted a search for a player to serenade his customers. On a recent day, he got four.

The 18th-century French Enlightenment cult of reason produced the 19th-century Romantic cult of passion as a counterreaction.