For one reason or another, electronic synthesizing musical instruments are mostly based around the keyboard. Sure, you’ve got the theremin and other oddities, but VCAs and VCFs are mostly the domain ...

The cello has remained a staple in music for hundreds of years and to this day, remains an important part of contemporary music too. Like other stringed instruments, the best cellos are those that are ...

Yo-Yo Ma’s instrument of choice is a 300-year-old Stradivarius cello. But you can’t accompany a Mongolian long song on a Strad. For that, you need a morin khuur. It has a long thin neck, a trapezoidal ...

One curious design innovation on display today through October 23 at K 2013, the world’s largest plastics trade show in Düsseldorf, Germany, is a prototype for a cello that looks like the 23rd-century ...

THE CELLO, born in the 16th century, formally known as the violoncello, once called the bass violin, made famous by the likes of J.S. Bach, Luigi Boccherini, Pablo Casals and Janos Starker, has a ...