The artist Larry Bell has amassed a vast collection of acoustic instruments, carefully stored in a climate-controlled room.

The instrument is meant to be placed on a table with the larger end toward the performer, and while the right hand plays the melody on the treble strings with a violin bow, accompanying chords are ...

The double-bass is a much larger version of than a cello ... similar in shape and implementation to the bow used on the other members of the orchestral string instrument family, while the "German" or ...

Long before sitars and tablas ruled the stage, India resonated with the haunting melodies of the Ravanahatha and the deep ...

Nowadays, they come complete with a large metal spike, known as an endpin ... cellos make a sound when the vibrations from the strings bounce around inside the instrument's wooden body. The bow, made ...