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Watch this charming live-instrument cover of the Banjo Kazooie intro

There is no shortage of nostalgia-inducing covers for our favourite games of yore. This cover of the intro of the original Banjo Kazooie however is as heartfelt as it is charming. The cover was done ...
KQED

Thirty Years Later, Ellen Fullman's 'The Long String Instrument' Still Resonates

About 30 years ago in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, there were 20 strings, 50 feet in length, slowly humming a composition by Ellen Fullman — she thinks. There might have been more strings; probably not ...
The New York Times

A Composer and Her (Very) Long String Instrument

Ellen Fullman is sheltering in place with the 40-string, 45-foot-long droning instrument she created decades ago. The sound artist Ellen Fullman near her home in Berkeley, Calif.Credit...Erin ...
BBC

KS2 Music / Science: How string instruments make sound

FRAN SCOTT: I love this piece. In fact I think it was the first bitof classical music that I ever heard. GREG FOOT: Ah yes Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. It's got the best startto any piece of music ever ...