A number of instruments played by famous folk artists, along with those of less-known and unknown artists, are housed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. National Museum of ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

The contemporary Polish folk group Warsaw Village Band has made some great music using this instrument, the strings of which one plays by rotating a built-in wheel with a crank. Cart Rattle from the ...

tango and many types of folk music. History The double bass is generally regarded as a modern descendant of the string family of instruments that originated in Europe in the 15th century, and as such ...

12-string guitar and other instruments. “The subject of ‘The American Folk Song’ has always been fascinating to me. It all started by listening to Bob Dylan while in high school. I read the ...