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Photo courtesy Michael Simmons. Frank Ford, the co-founder of Gryphon Stringed Instruments and a beloved member of the Palo Alto musicians’ community, died after a brief illness on Sunday ...

The elder Tuttle has been a music instructor at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto for over 30 years and is the music editor for Fiddler Magazine. Jack Tuttle and award-winning lyricist ...

A violin is the highest pitched string instrument and a double bass is the lowest pitched string instrument found in an orchestra. A trumpet is the highest pitched brass instrument in an orchestra ...

blow’ is a gentle song relating wind and weather sounds to how different wind instruments create their sounds in the air. Then ‘Twang those strings’ introduces the diversity of string-sounds ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...

So we don’t mind admitting we have high hopes for the xDSD Gryphon. It’s an evolution of 2018’s xDSD, and it’s specified to cover every realistic eventuality (and quite a few unrealistic ...

It also has a long history in Chinese musical instruments – so much so that the Mandarin term sizhu, which translates as “silk and bamboo”, refers to string and wind musical instruments.

With a ‘sweetened’ tuning each string is slightly flat or sharp to account for the intonation of that particular instrument.

The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a transposing instrument and is ...

In Europe, the Acoustic Pianos & Stringed Keyboard Instruments market generates a revenue of US$0.4bn in 2024. It is projected to experience an annual growth rate of 3.30% (CAGR 2024-2028).

The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched of the string instrument family. Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical ...