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The decades-old West End Music offers instruments, lessons, repairs and more at its new home in the Lehigh Valley.

Angine de Poitrine don't abide by the usual rules of Western music, using their own custom-built guitar to strike notes that ...

The plucked string has been singing since before history bothered to write anything down. Walk through any museum wing dedicated to ancient civilizations and you will see them: fragments of wood, bone ...

When James Talambas plays the long string instrument, he often imagines flying. The long string instrument, which was created by Ellen Fullman, is 60 feet long and features 44 bronze strings stretched ...