Charlie Buquette

1. The Library of Congress is known as the largest library in the world, with more than 138 million items on 650 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 5.5 million pieces of sheet music alongside 32 million books and other printed materials, 2.9 million recordings, 12.5 million photographs,...

A member of the woodwind family, the recorder's history is not well known, although examples of it can be found in medieval paintings, and what appears to be a recognizable recorder-type instrument dating back to the Iron Age has been found - although it is made of sheep bone rather...

Born in 1770, Ludvig van Beethoven was one of only three of his parents' seven offspring children to survive infancy. Yet the world of music owes this chance event an immeasurable amount, because he would go on to be one of a handful of composers to grace the art form...

Although the precise origins of the classical guitar are open to debate, there is plenty of evidence of the existence of similar instruments dating back as early as 5000 years ago. The idea of a hollow body with tensed strings anchored between two points is seen in many instruments, including...