Music is universal across all civilisations, both ancient and modern, and stands as one of the great joys of life. Another joy is that many of the oldest songs and instruments can be played hundreds, ...

An exhibition at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix features some of China's earliest known musical instruments, the oldest dating from 7,000 to 9,000 years ago. Experts analyzing instruments in ...

The sounds of an ancient Chinese instrument will fill the Englert Theatre Sunday afternoon. The guzheng, an 18-string zither-like instrument believed to be more than 2,500 years old, will take center ...

A collection of ancient jaw harps dating back some 4,000 years ago were unearthed in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, archaeologists announced at a press conference Monday. More than 20 ancient jaw ...

Chinese archaeologists working in Hubei province’s Zaoyang City have unearthed an ancient stringed instrument dating back thousands of years. It’s said to be the earliest ever found in China. Above: a ...

(MENAFN- Nam News Network) RIYADH, Sept 30 (NNN-SPA) – A Chinese musical instruments exhibition titled:“The Sound of Harmony: Musical Instruments in Ancient China,” opened Sunday evening, at the Saudi ...

A man views a Bo, a large bell from Chinese ancient times, and a set of bronze chimes of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC) at an exhibition of ancient Chinese musical instruments at the ...

Ancient Chinese music performed by husband-and-wife duo Wang Jian-xin and Li Feng-yun on the historic instruments qin and xiao will be featured at Brigham Young University Friday, Sept. 18, in the ...

It’s fair to say that whoever invented the sheng, an ancient Chinese wind instrument, had no concept of 8-bit Italian plumbers. The golden era of the NES would come a good, oh, 3,000 years in the ...

Originating nearly 2,500 years ago, the guzheng is a traditional Chinese zither, a stringed instrument featuring up to 21 movable strings and bridges. The ancient instrument was the exact piece ...

A pottery figurine of the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) is on display at an exhibition of ancient Chinese musical instruments at the Southern Song Dynasty Guan Kiln Museum in Hangzhou, capital of East ...