This stems from the open A string being common to all orchestral string instruments. The oboist plays a long A when ...

"Ukelin" is one of the more common trade names of a type of stringed musical instrument marketed from the early 1920s until about 1965. Ukelins combine two sets of strings, one group of sixteen ...

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 ...

These include a quartet of 18th-century Stradivari stringed instruments, Tito Puente's autographed timbales ... the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, and in other public programs.

Kids and adults tried their hands at an array of instruments under the supervision of band leaders and members of the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra. The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra is back for ...