A string instrument "Cello" which is larger than the violin and slightly smaller than the contrabass is a musical instrument with four strings and bass echoes. A cello craftworker cut out timber, ...

International Cello Day is celebrated on December 29 to honour the cello, a deeply expressive string instrument. The day ...

Lately, Rafael Carrabba has been able to breathe just a little bit easier. A few weeks ago, the Seattle-based master luthier — who finds and fixes valuable string instruments — completed the most ...

While working on her doctoral thesis, cellist Saskia Rao-de Haas remembers chancing on a 1932 letter from Rabindranath Tagore to his granddaughter. There is an instrument, he says, that he prefers ...

Back in 2017, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston hired Shirley Hunt to play a special centennial event to commemorate a large donation of historical instruments by a museum trustee. Hunt, a Boston-based ...

Ishmael Ali wears many musical hats: composer, guitarist (in the bands Je’raf and Errata) and co-founder of a recording space in North Lawndale. But it’s his most recent instrument — cello — that has ...

From its origins as a coarse dance instrument to a symbol of courage and defiance, the cello has inspired so many of the west’s greatest composers and performers ‘Why write for a violin when there is ...