"Ukelin" is one of the more common trade names of a type of stringed musical instrument marketed from the early 1920s until about 1965. Ukelins combine two sets of strings, one group of sixteen ...

Acoustic pianos and stringed keyboard instruments are musical instruments that produce sound by striking or plucking strings using a keyboard. Examples of acoustic pianos include grand pianos ...

The Museum's music collections contain more than 5,000 instruments of American and European heritage. These include a quartet of 18th-century Stradivari stringed instruments, Tito Puente's autographed ...

This book explores the history of keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to the development of the modern piano. It reveals the principles of their design and describes structural ...

Many factors contributed, including a general economic downturn, a defunding of school music programs, a changing demographic as boomers turned away from musical hobbies and an increase in ...

Sounds can be made by twanging a string, blowing down a pipe, banging something together, and scraping or shaking something. There are three families of musical instruments: string, wind and ...

Acoustic pianos and stringed keyboard instruments are musical instruments that produce sound by striking or plucking strings using a keyboard. Examples of acoustic pianos include grand pianos ...