The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects and the tools that built them were all made by hand. A violin in the raw sits ...

With a history spanning over 2,000 years, the ruan is one of China's oldest and most treasured plucked string instruments that continues to enthrall audiences with its timeless beauty and soothing ...

The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621. The first known instance of a composer ordering up plucking violins came just three years later. To musician and NPR cultural commentator Miles Hoffman, ...

This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

An artist plays a duxianqin at a tourism promotion event held in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. ZHOU HUA/XINHUA NANNING — A duxianqin musician only needs a single string stretched across ...