Upon discovering Gregg Miner's Museum of Vintage, Exotic and Just Plain Unusual Musical Instruments in Tarzana, Calif., a couple years ago, Weekend Edition essayist Tim Brookes saw something called a ...

Three million people visit Mt. Laguna every year to camp, hike, or play in the snow, yet virtually none of them realize they have driven right by one of the most exclusive and renowned harp-string ...

Music is an undeniable part of Mississippi's culture, so much so that the state brands itself the "Birthplace of America's Music." Mississippi transplant Kristi Flake wants to add another element to ...

Rage. Anger. Love. It would be interesting if we could bundle up every emotion that music had the potential to make us feel. Lust. Joy. Hate. In turn appreciating the way that noise and sound can ...

Melanie Young plays this rarely heard work by William Grant Still for harp, strings, and piano. It is a vivid reflection of ...

THE harp is such a handsome instrument that some are sold simply to decorate a room. Heretics who do not like the ethereal elegance of harp music often say that it looks better than it sounds. It is ...

Imagine you could shrink to the size of an ant and slip inside a cello while it’s being played. That is what the audience will experience when William Close and the Earth Harp Collective performs as ...

The first time Alex and Susan Marini listened closely to a harp, it was over dinner at a Massachusetts restaurant. “It sounded like the voice of angels,” says Susan Marini. At the time, the Marinis ...

Harpist Zachary Adinolfi has been busy. Playing the Irish harp for fun, professionally and in competition, he is also on top of keeping up with his schoolwork, because Zach is 12 years old. On Dec. 4, ...