Many of us have listened to the mesmerising sound of the santoor, an instrument made famous by the late Shiv Kumar Sharma Many of us have listened to the mesmerising sound of the santoor, an ...

“My father is a classical violinist, and my mother paints,” says Moroccan-born Hicham Chami. “They live for music. And they wanted their children to have a broad, cultivated upbringing.” But violin or ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—Hoping to draw tourists from the Kurdistan Region to her native country of Tunisia, musician and singer Malek Cochtoben recently came to Erbil with her qanun instrument saying ...

Did you know the word ‘guitar’ comes from Arabic? Or that bagpipes are played in the Middle East as well as Scotland? Here are some of the musical instruments you may not have known from the Orient… ...