Short-bearded, blue-jeaned Rajan Krishnaswami is seated on the stage in the empty hall embracing his cello like a lover. Fingers flash along the finger board; his arm draws the bow incisively over the ...

While modern life grows louder and faster, the cello sits patiently in the room, speaking softly until everyone ...

This incredible string instrument looks like it’s carved from ice – but it’s actually made of glass. Cellist Jesse Ahmann was getting fed up of playing his regular cello, so he thought he’d give ...

Nine-year-old David Gerstein decided to pick the cello over other instruments because he and some members of his family weren’t fond of high, squeaky noises. “If I’d picked the violin it would’ve ...

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 ...

In southern Arizona, Glenn Weyant 'plays' the border fence with a mallet or cello bow to create haunting compositions, using the wall as an instrument of dialogue. SASABE, Ariz. -- On a windy day in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Leonardo da Vinci is highly acclaimed not only as an artist but also as a machine engineer. And a mysterious instrument that combines piano and cello with one of the sketches left in the manuscript ...