A music festival with a difference is coming to Dorset. The Dorchester Dulcimer Weekend, happening on Saturday and Sunday, is based around the unusual stringed instrument of the same name.

Rob Scallon has been a YouTuber for 17 years. For the last 12 of those he’s been paying rent by building the world’s largest pedalboard, exploring unusual stringed instruments and more.

Richard Kurin, Acting Provost and Under Secretary for Museums and Research at the Smithsonian Institution, discusses the evolution of stringed instruments from the ektar to the dutar, sitar, qatar and ...

Rob Scallon has been a YouTuber for 17 years. For the last 12 of those he’s been paying rent by building the world’s largest pedalboard, exploring unusual stringed instruments and more.

It is an ancient stringed instrument, used in parts of India, Sri Lanka, and areas around these two countries. It is also known as the ancestor of the violin. Indian Musical School ...

Carlos Paredes Regular readers of this feature might know that I have a thing for unusual stringed instruments. Last month, I found myself listening to an awful lot of music performed on the ...

"Unusual" is, of course, a relative term — surprisingly, a lot of you seem thrown by Ozzy's harmonica-honkin' on Black Sabbath 's "The Wizard" — and some instruments are more unorthodox than others.