We all know the names of common musical instruments, but this list of 11 unusual musical instruments with weird names will show you that there are some out there you’ve never seen or heard about. As ...

The play “UchinaAloha,” written by Tonouchi, features the unique three-string instrument. 2016 September 1 FTR - HSA Photo by Jamm Aquino. Playwright Lee Tanouchi, left, and actor Kenny Kusaka pose ...

Rob Scallon has been a YouTuber for 17 years. For the last 12 of those he’s been paying rent by building the world’s largest pedalboard, exploring unusual stringed instruments and more. He says with a ...

Local players of stringed instruments are looking forward to the arrival in Tualatin of Bob Culbertson, a renowned musician who plays an unusual stringed instrument called the Chapman Stick.

Petr Bucinsky adjusts the bridge of a violin at his violin shop on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News) What is likely the oldest man-made object in Alaska still able to fully ...

After 42 years building and repairing hundreds of stringed instruments, Mark Bluett is retiring and passing his business on ...

The artifacts represent the earliest-known stringed instruments found in Southeast Asia. A reconstruction of the chordophone, crafted out of deer antler. Photo: Antiquity (2023). DOI: ...

So far all the musical instruments that made this list of unusual musical instruments with weird names were rather modern creations. But the Octobass was designed and produced way back in 1850 by Jean ...