Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At what age do most kids start learning how to play guitar? If you ask guitar maker Brian Calhoun, based on conversations he’s had ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

Visit any local farmers market, summer festival or coffee-house jam session, and you’ll likely see adults making music with fiddles, banjos and mandolins. It’s no surprise, then, that Vermont kids ...

The strings the cellist is referring to is the area of music education called string teaching. Teaching school-age children the violin, viola, cello and double bass–instruments that are played with a ...

There were no fuzzy animals at the Warm Springs Library. “It’s kind of funny," says Jaime McArdle of the Allegheny Mountain String Project. "Last year when we did this petting zoo, some of the kids ...

The soft vibrations of string instruments floated through t Public Library as kids sat in front of members of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Eyes wide, they squirmed with excitement ...

Six students in grades three through five at Sarah Moore Greene Magnet Academy (SMG) have been having some very special lessons this school year, and because of a Tennessee Arts Commission grant, ...

FRAN SCOTT: I love this piece. In fact I think it was the first bitof classical music that I ever heard. GREG FOOT: Ah yes Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. It's got the best startto any piece of music ever ...

If you were scouting through the internet to find what are the 6 hardest instruments to play for kids in an orchestra, we are going to ease your research with our list. Music has a huge impact on the ...