For Vickey Sasser, every dulcimer tells the story of Appalachia and America. The mountain dulcimer, a string instrument popular in American folk music, first appeared in America in the early 19th ...

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An intriguing new study shows positive cognitive effects for older people playing an instrument for the first time.

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The Marquette County String Orchestra Society is pictured. (Photo courtesy of Inga Banitt) MARQUETTE — Marquette County String Orchestra Society formed in 2025, after Janis Peterson, Wendy Larson and ...

I ran into a musician friend I hadn’t seen in a while. After he turned 70, he taught himself to play the piano.

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The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky A hushed chord sustained by the second violin, viola and cello. Fragments of a melody ...

The Independent and Yahoo will earn a commission from purchases made via links in this article. Pricing and availability are subject to change. Learning a musical instrument could prevent “brain rot” ...

Physicists may have uncovered a surprising new clue that string theory—the idea that the universe is built from unimaginably tiny vibrating strings—could be more than just a mathematical fantasy.