To tai chi master Guo Huaisheng, music floats from a guqin (a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family) like mist while melodies run from a piano like rainfall. "A great ...

Surely we’ve all played some bass riffs on a stretched-out rubber band before, right? [Nicolas Bras] found that the ultimate musical rubber bands are bungee cords, and used seven of them to build a ...

Listen to the Davenport Zither Ensemble rehearse three tunes at the German-American Heritage Center. Every Saturday morning, just as a cuckoo clock chirps 10 times, the members of the Davenport Zither ...

Rochester, N. Y.. city of cameras and music, is the hotbed of U. S. zither playing. There last week the United Zither Players of America gathered for its Tenth National Congress and, proudly led by ...

It’s 1903 and you’re sitting in the parlor on a quiet Sunday afternoon. You’ve just finished reading a couple of chapters of Jack London’s new book, “The Call of the Wild,” and now you’re looking for ...