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 ...

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 ...

Have you ever heard of a musical instrument called a lirone? It's a bowed string instrument in the lira family that was popularized in the 16th and 17th centuries. Today's Beautiful Music is an ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the wake of the Iranian revolution, teenage Kayhan Kalhor left his homeland and family with nothing but a backpack and his beloved kamancheh (an Iranian bowed string instrument) in tow. Since that ...

Is a bowed string instrument. Is played sitting on the floor, like the sarangi, but has frets, like a sitar. Has a number of sympathetic and drone strings.

Is a bowed string instrument. Is played sitting on the floor, like the sarangi, but has frets, like a sitar. Has a number of sympathetic and drone strings.

Music legend Padma Shri Sakar Khan, who took kamancha – a bowed string instrument – to the world stage, passed away on August 10. He was 77. Born in the village of Hamira in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer ...