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 ...

• View this story alongside more photos, a slideshow and a video. When Frank Ford and Richard Johnston first met as college students back in the 1960s, introduced by a mutual friend, it was evident ...

Perumpanattrupadai, a Sangam work by Kadiyalur Uruttirankannanar, narrates a scene in which a shepherd (Idayan) plays a bow-shaped instrument, made of the branches of Kumizh, known as Gmelina asiatica ...