Nowadays, they come complete with a large metal spike, known as an endpin, which holds the cello up by digging in to the floor. Range A cello can play from a low C, two octaves below middle C, known ...

Historical response to the cello endpin, which anchors the instrument to the floor, has alternated between acceptance and ...

Strings and wood become harp and drum accompanying cellist Abel Selaocoe's chants and throat singing in his new album, Hymns of Bantu, out this month.It's just one of the many ways he makes ...

As a child, four lines drawn on paper were his strings. Now he’s a cello sensation. By Nick Galvin. March 26, 2025. Music was everywhere when Abel Selaocoe was growing up in South Africa.

The cellist Alisa Weilerstein, at Carnegie Hall, performed newly commissioned pieces interwoven with the movements of Bach’s suites for solo cello. The whole is less than its parts.