"I had very low expectations for how it was going to sound. I just thought it would look interesting because it was different," said Gary Zimnicki, owner of the custom instrument business. Zimnicki ...

Along with Andrea Amati and Andrea Guarneri, Antonio Stradivari dominated the so-called Golden Age of Violins (roughly 1660 to 1750), and the instruments they crafted remain the gold standard today in ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. It is the lowest of the woodwind instruments. It is made out of maple wood ...

To capture the essence of Guillermo del Toro‘s “Pinocchio,” on Netflix Dec. 9, composer Alexandre Desplat came up with an ingenious idea: a score performed only with wood instruments. “I always like ...