Amati “King” cello at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting a special summer guest: the world’s oldest known cello.

My 6-year-old daughter plays the cello. It is incredibly, heart-ticklingly awesome. Not so awesome? Traveling with a cello. But because we travel a fair amount and have in the past not brought the ...

Donors have raised more than $20,000 to help a Vancouver-based cellist replace the instrument he was forced to sell after ...

For cellist Cello (Qiele) Guo, playing the instrument that reflects his name was not a coincidence. It was destiny. “My father was a cellist … in China,” Guo said. “He gave me the name Cello because ...

On a winter afternoon, Eddie Adams walked into a Kohl’s department store in Fairfax County looking for a red button-down shirt. He really didn’t have the money, but he was set to go onstage at the ...

There is mounting evidence that playing music, or even listening to it, can delay or reverse the onset of normal age-related ...

A crazy gadget that looks like a toy fretboard peripheral for a video game is actually a highly versatile instrument that can be played in many ways. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

Dirty Cello defies convention — and its members know it. As the Bay Area band returns to Napa for its upcoming performance at the Native Sons of the Golden West Hall on Saturday, April 26, lead ...

U.S. military bands will be out in force this July 4 holiday weekend. Their blaring trumpets, booming drums and trilling piccolos will get many American hearts a-pounding and toes a-tapping. No one ...