The cello, otherwise known as a violoncello, is a bowed instrument with four strings. It's a close cousin of the violin, viola, and double bass. The cello can be played as a solo instrument, as well ...

Cellist Hughes Chong remembers the day strangers from the bank entered his house, labelling anything of value because his ...

Amedeo Baldovino could have panicked. The ship that the cellist was on had caught fire between Uruguay and Argentina, causing him and the other two members of the Trieste Piano Trio to jump into ...

Baldovino’s story from July of 1963—and that of his instrument—are among the subjects of Kate Kennedy’s absorbing book, “Cello.” Ms. Kennedy, the co-director of the Oxford Centre for ...

There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put together, and they are very often at the heart of the music. The cello looks like a violin - but bigger. You couldn't ...

An 18th-Century cello has been returned to a French musician after an appeal following her knifepoint robbery. Ophélie Gaillard was robbed of the instrument and her mobile phone outside her home ...

Of all the instruments at her disposal, she chose the cello. "It's my instrument, so it was convenient as I played it on the soundtrack," she says. Hildur was lured into working on the Joker ...

Mr Kanneh-Mason’s cello is no ordinary instrument. It was made by Venetian luthier Matteo Goffriller more than 300 years ago and was given to Mr Kanneh-Mason in 2021 on an indefinite loan. It is ...

Mr Kanneh-Mason’s cello is no ordinary instrument. It was made by Venetian luthier Matteo Goffriller more than 300 years ago and was given to Mr Kanneh-Mason in 2021 on an indefinite loan.