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Mandolin History
The mandolin is a small stringed instrument with eight strings in four pairs (two strings for each note) that are either plucked or strummed in a trill. It's a descendant...
Mandolin History
The mandolin is a small stringed instrument with eight strings in four pairs (two strings for each note) that are either plucked or strummed in a trill. It's a descendant...
Lute History
The lute can refer generally, to any plucked-string musical instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back, or the more specific style of "European lute"....
Lute History
The lute can refer generally, to any plucked-string musical instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back, or the more specific style of "European lute"....
Concertina History
A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It has a bellows, and buttons typically on both ends of it. When pressed, the buttons...
Concertina History
A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It has a bellows, and buttons typically on both ends of it. When pressed, the buttons...
Bird Calls History
Until the 60s, these whistles were used only for hunting, even as ecology was not recognized. But because of the devastation of forests around the world, people began to think...
Bird Calls History
Until the 60s, these whistles were used only for hunting, even as ecology was not recognized. But because of the devastation of forests around the world, people began to think...
Cuban Charanga Flutes
Information The five-key wooden transverse flute, which in the 1950s and 1960s was dubbed the "charanga flute." During the 19th century, the transverse flute underwent many changes, with as many...
Cuban Charanga Flutes
Information The five-key wooden transverse flute, which in the 1950s and 1960s was dubbed the "charanga flute." During the 19th century, the transverse flute underwent many changes, with as many...
Cellos History
The earliest depictions of the violin family, from northern Italy c. 1530, show three sizes of instruments, roughly corresponding to what we now call violins, violas, and cellos. Contrary to...
Cellos History
The earliest depictions of the violin family, from northern Italy c. 1530, show three sizes of instruments, roughly corresponding to what we now call violins, violas, and cellos. Contrary to...