Music is universal across all civilisations, both ancient and modern, and stands as one of the great joys of life. Another joy is that many of the oldest songs and instruments can be played hundreds, ...

An exhibition at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix features some of China's earliest known musical instruments, the oldest dating from 7,000 to 9,000 years ago. Experts analyzing instruments in ...

A collection of ancient jaw harps dating back some 4,000 years ago were unearthed in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, archaeologists announced at a press conference Monday. More than 20 ancient jaw ...

Chinese archaeologists working in Hubei province’s Zaoyang City have unearthed an ancient stringed instrument dating back thousands of years. It’s said to be the earliest ever found in China. Above: a ...

(MENAFN- Nam News Network) RIYADH, Sept 30 (NNN-SPA) – A Chinese musical instruments exhibition titled:“The Sound of Harmony: Musical Instruments in Ancient China,” opened Sunday evening, at the Saudi ...

In a sleek recording studio, young Chinese musicians are gathered around their instruments. Clad in traditional hanfu — flowing robes with wide sleeves and intricate headpieces — they are preparing to ...

It’s fair to say that whoever invented the sheng, an ancient Chinese wind instrument, had no concept of 8-bit Italian plumbers. The golden era of the NES would come a good, oh, 3,000 years in the ...

Canada’s Red Chamber is a musical group that plays songs from the Tang Dynasty — that’s A.D. 618 to 907 — and performs jazz, blues and contemporary tunes on ancient instruments. The group features ...

Entering the main office of the Anderson Center, a historic estate just outside Red Wing, it's not uncommon to hear music, since the property has long served as an artists community. But this month, ...

EVERETT— Know what an erhu is? An ancient Chinese musical instrument, it’s a two-stringed bowed fiddle of sorts. Perhaps you’ve seen it played on street corners in big cities with Chinatown ...

Originating nearly 2,500 years ago, the guzheng is a traditional Chinese zither, a stringed instrument featuring up to 21 movable strings and bridges. The ancient instrument was the exact piece ...

Look what Tastefully Offensive found that Gizmodo found that we found: a girl playing the Super Mario Bros. theme on a sheng, “a Chinese instrument invented thousands of years ago.” What’s so neat ...