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So “obsessed” was the young Imogen Whitehead with the trumpet, at five years old she wrote a letter to Father Christmas ...

From contrabassoons to harmonicas, we take a look at some of the concertos for more unusual instruments to have found their ...

As the in-house guitar hero of metal pioneers Black Sabbath, almost every player with a heavy proclivity owes something to Tony Iommi. One of the fretboard masters who rose in the wake of Jimi Hendrix ...

The opera is divided into two parts: Performance Act 1 and Performance Act 2, with a 20-minute intermission in between. It stars Gbolabo ‘Gibbs’ Adebakin as Brother Jero, John Paul Ochei as Chume, Ige ...

Hendrix played it. Clapton lived it. Now it is your turn. Learn the E major scale with chord breakdowns, song examples, and ...

The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky A hushed chord sustained by the second violin, viola and cello. Fragments of a melody ...

Physicists may have uncovered a surprising new clue that string theory—the idea that the universe is built from unimaginably tiny vibrating strings—could be more than just a mathematical fantasy.

Eric Church is pulling on everyone’s heartstrings with his commencement speech about six strings. In a season filled with celebrity speeches to 2026 college graduates, the country music star’s “six ...

When James Talambas plays the long string instrument, he often imagines flying. The long string instrument, which was created by Ellen Fullman, is 60 feet long and features 44 bronze strings stretched ...

Voyager 1 just powered down a nearly 50-year-old instrument to stay alive in deep space. The spacecraft is running critically low on energy, forcing NASA to make careful sacrifices to keep its mission ...