UMass Lowell

String Project

The UMass Lowell String Project is a music education and community engagement initiative housed in the Department of Music that provides music instruction to students grades 3-12 from the Merrimack ...
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 ...
Houston Chronicle

'World's largest string instrument' to make church's holiday service even more special

When worshippers arrive at Salem Lutheran Church in Tomball for Christmas Eve services, they'll enter more than a sanctuary. They'll be stepping into a musical instrument. Its strings will span the ...
inforum

It's My Job: Instrument repair combines music, tinkering

FARGO - Summertime is high-season for Glenn Miller, the sole string instrument technician at Christian Eggert Violins. While the area's young musicians are playing summer sports, pool-hopping and ...