According to sales data, during the past 35 years the returns for high-end stringedinstruments have vastly exceeded the performance of American stocks (see chart).
But Arborea is mostly an experimental album, with the Currans bowing and plucking their stringedinstruments to create spacey, ambient drones more than standard chord progressions.
In the first half of the concert, the 75 Unhasu musicians performed North Korean pieces including works for traditional stringedinstruments the haegum and the zither-like kayagum.
The school specializes in Arabic instruments such as the kanoun, a triangular stringed instrument a little like a horizontal harp, and the oud, a pear-shaped stringed instrument similar to a lute, and also teaches Western classical instruments and music theory.