South Western Railway is searching for the owner of a unique homemade hurdy-gurdy found in lost property after the unusual ...

A music festival with a difference is coming to Dorset. The Dorchester Dulcimer Weekend, happening on Saturday and Sunday, is based around the unusual stringed instrument of the same name. Festival ...

Haymes calls himself a “utility infielder” in Ramblin Jug Stompers, responsible for many of the unusual sounds that don’t come from the typical stringed instruments in acoustic bands. At the band’s ...

Since the first of our ancestors discovered that banging a stick on a hollow log makes a jolly sound, we hominids have been finding new and unusual ways to make music. We haven’t come close to tapping ...

Teenager Thomas Handley has an unusual hobby of making stringed musical instruments. It began when he decided to make a Saxon lyre, a six-stringed harp, for a school GCSE project. Thomas, 16, from ...

January 17-20 marks the return of the Cigar Box Guitar Festival, a celebration of homemade stringed instruments and their relationship to blues music. Its the third annual iteration of the Fest, which ...

BRUNSWICK, Ohio – Many people can brag about creating a delicious food from scratch. But Don and Jackie Gardner have something a little more unique to talk about. They create stringed musical ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Most buskers provide a soundtrack to the rush-hour commute playing a saxophone or guitar, but busker ...

Performing recently in a Shanghai park, a musician gingerly glides his bow across the strings of his erhu before tightening them to bring the instrument back into tune. Soon he is immersed in the ...