One fall afternoon — red leaves, silver drizzle — a friend and I were given a tour of Canterbury Shaker Village in New Hampshire. We learned many things: how the Shakers believed in a life of ...

Point the Piano and Violin Learning Pen from Gigiway at notation in a music book and it will either play the piece through its built-in speaker or repeat and re-repeat a chosen passage and tell you ...

In the last days of July he Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila left behind the endless summer twilights of her own country for a few days of lower latitudes and earlier nightfalls in Upstate New York. At ...

A player selects notes from a bank of recorded violin sounds using a keyboard while the bowing hand strokes a traditional violin bow over an optical sensor. The result is pleasantly realistic. Menzies ...

Sometimes you really want to belt out a great passage of your favourite concerto. Great! But what if it's a summer's afternoon and you don't have an orchestra immediately to hand? That's no problem ...

Instead of sounding its usual, barnstorming self, Franck’s much-played Sonata for Violin and Piano emerges here elegant, clear and expressive. Isabelle Faust has chosen to record the work using gut ...

San Francisco's Musée Mécanique has just unveiled its "Mills Bow-Front Violano Virtuoso," a century-old self-playing device which performs duets on piano and violin. At San Francisco's Fisherman's ...

EUREKA >> The popular “Sundays at 4” concert series returns for the summer at 4 p.m. Sunday with a concert of early music with “Trumpet Consort von Humboldt” and “á due” — an early music ensemble from ...