Friedrich Heinrich Kern plays a version of the glass harmonica called the verrophone for Opera Philadelphia's production of "Written on Skin." (Emma Lee/WHYY) On Friday, Opera Philadelphia will ...

GEOWAV brings the harp into hip-hop spaces, flipping a classical instrument and carving out a sound that feels fully Bay Area.

Harmonicas were commonly called “French harps” or “mouth organs” and mountain men played them superbly. Some still do, though such old-fashioned music is not nearly as common as it was before and ...

The harmonica is one of the easiest instruments to learn, but mastering it to a level approaching players like Toots Thielemans and Sugar Blue and can take many years. You may have seen blues players ...

There are few instruments stranger than a harmonica. While there are chromatic versions of the harmonica, most players use the ones that are set in a certain key. That way, no matter what you blow, it ...

Oakland, CA, Jan. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Assinyeola Music Publishing has announced its release, “I Need Time To Chill” a 26-track harp centered Lo-Fi/Chill-Hop album which has gotten over 50,000 ...

ASUNCION, Paraguay — The sounds of heaven, plucked on 36 strings, fill the ramshackle houses and potholed streets of this sleepy capital. Some of that music comes from the basement of harp master ...

He has been called ”a gentle sound-painter,” a ”New Age Pied Piper.” Both seem fitting tags for Andreas Vollenweider, the Swiss harpist who is winning over American audiences with his mesmerizing mood ...

Midlanders have an opportunity Friday night to hear a world-class talent play unusual stringed instruments, plus an area couple enrich Celtic music traditions with world influences, all at a bargain ...