The cello is a very fine instrument - just ask Yo-Yo Ma - but it has some fundamental weaknesses. The most obvious one is that there's no way to play more than two of its four strings simultaneously.

When world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma visited the nearly completed Green Music Center in 2011, he did not bring either of his famous cellos: the Davidov Stradivarius crafted in 1712 or the Montagnana ...

The cello takes a prime place in the instrumental galaxy for its ability to explore extremes of musical expression with innate eloquence. Anssi Karttunen, a Finnish cellist who embraces music of many ...