Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. How does a grand piano make such a beautiful sound? Piano technician Ara Vartoukian explains by pulling ...

You’ve heard of violin strings snapping mid-performance. Now, get ready to watch a grand piano string fly off its pin, like an over-exerted elastic band. The video below, seen over 100,000 times on ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The chamber works Elgar wrote in the immediate aftermath of the first world war were, astonishingly, his first ...

A celebration of all things piano and string through chamber music collaborations, performance classes, creative workshops and a closing showcase concert in intimate Thompson Recital Hall! Open to ...

A few years ago Gibson began introducing some clever new technology to a select few guitars which automatically tuned the instrument and kept it there (seen most recently in the gorgeous Firebird X).

Just listen to the incredible, deep sound of this beast of a piano, which is twice the length of a concert hall Steinway. A few years ago New Zealand piano builder Adrian Alexander Mann fancied a ...

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Carolyn Warner (piano), Lisa Boyko (viola), Bryan Dumm (cello), Katherine Bormann (violin) The String/Piano Chamber Music Ensemble features small chamber groups—strings only or strings with ...

Elgar was over 60 when, at the end of the first World War, he first turned seriously to chamber music, producing a Violin Sonata, a String Quartet and a Piano Quintet. The quartet and quintet recorded ...

Part of How To Classical. Why does the oboe tune the orchestra? Why does the orchestra sit the way it does? What does rosin actually do to a violin bow? If you find the traditions of the classical ...