On Friday, September 26th, the Jupiter String Quartet gave its final performance with its current personnel. The quartet ...

Georg Friedrich Haas has written a piece of almost ridiculous scale and complexity. The effect is awe-inspiring.

In New York's Park Avenue Armory, an ambitious series of performances that commenced last night and continues through October 7 marks the North American premiere of 11,000 Strings, an orchestral piece ...

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 ...

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 ...

Playing string swapsies on instruments, to find out how it sounds. Ever wondered what would happen if you replaced an essential part of a perfectly fine instrument with something from another? Just ...

A few years ago, Yamaha tried a crazy experiment. What if it produced a grand piano that replaced strings with sensors? What if the sound came from painstakingly recorded audio samples of each string ...

The piano is a bit of an oddball within the string instrument family. Apart from rarely seeing people carry one around on the bus or use its case to discretely conceal a Tommy Gun, the way the strings ...

Every musician has a particular set of tasks and warm-ups before a performance or practice session—oiling the valves, rosining the bow, tuning, long tones, scales, stretches. For Kelly Moran, a ...

Brian Bailey tunes a piano. He's been aurally tuning the instruments for the past 37 years and says there's been decreased need for his services because so many people have switched to digital pianos.

Seattle, WA, November 19, 2019 — Roland Cloud, an evolving cloud-based suite of software synthesizers, drum machines, and sampled instruments for modern creators, presents SRX ELECTRIC PIANO, SRX ...