We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...

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Though he had studied classical music from the age of 3, and cello from the time he was 9, Rushad Eggleston wasn’t married to either. During Eggleston’s teens, the cello would spend months at a time ...

Yo-Yo Ma’s instrument of choice is a 300-year-old Stradivarius cello. But you can’t accompany a Mongolian long song on a Strad. For that, you need a morin khuur. It has a long thin neck, a trapezoidal ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Classical-music insiders were quick to peg Alisa Weilerstein as an unusually promising talent in her teens, but the 26-year-old cellist’s already fast-rising ...

What beginner cellists aren't told when they first pick up the instrument is, if they are talented, someday they may have to pay double at the airline counter.String instruments are typically quite ...

Mario Miralles spent decades acquiring the spruce and maple for string instruments worthy of Yo-Yo Ma and Gustavo Dudamel.

When world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma visited the nearly completed Green Music Center in 2011, he did not bring either of his famous cellos: the Davidov Stradivarius crafted in 1712 or the Montagnana ...