MERRIAM? For sale: one set of 62 violins, violas, cellos and basses. The price tag is just shy of $1 million, but the results will go toward answering a riddle of music history, so the purchaser’s ...

The BYU New Horizons Orchestra is living proof that when it comes to learning to play a musical instrument, it truly is never too late. Enrollment is now open for the upcoming season of this ...

The iconic sound of an orchestra tuning is highly recognisable, even for those who’ve never set foot in a concert hall. Many of us first heard it while watching a Looney Tunes cartoon. Have you ever ...

Orchestras began tuning to the oboe, in part, because its sound was more penetrating in a performance setting than gut strings. There were also fewer oboes than violins, and in the earliest orchestras ...

A key composing skill is understanding the sounds that musical instruments make and how they can combine together to create a sound, that you want for your composition. A violin is the highest pitched ...

EDMONDS — For the first concert of Cascade Symphony’s season, conductor Michael Miropolsky features the main sections of the orchestra. In parts. The Elegie and Finale from Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade for ...

TAUNTON – A nonprofit aimed at enriching kids’ lives by teaching them a love for classical music and string instrumentation was started in Taunton by two violinists. “There’s something so powerful ...

The National Institute of Forest Science (NIFS) on July 10 announced its development of a technology to boost the acoustic properties of wood used to make string instruments by using wood-rotting ...