A young lute player is aided by a harmonizing spider who resides in her lute, unbeknownst to her. Though the spider becomes attached to the lute player, she continues to feel loneliness and longing for her home among other spiders in the forest of her birth.

A riverboat captain and shantyman engage in a flute-playing competition with life-or-death consequences.

A young boy learns to play the accordion, and slowly watches his parents drift apart as he grows up.

A young eleven-fingered Jewish pianist, who might fulfill the legacy of a 19th century virtuoso composer before her, falls victim to the political climate of Nazi Germany. A fictional biography about an eleven-fingered virtuoso pianist's the legacy, which dies with a Jewish child prodigy during the rise of Hitler's Germany.

On a present-day Native American reservation, a tribal judge investigates the robbery of an elderly man’s stolen fiddle. In the process, they uncover the fiddle's mythical origin story.

When a second-rate Czech violinist travels to Iceland to perform around the country, a violent storm breaks out, and he meets an old man on an island who has never heard music before.

When eccentric scientist Papa Schimmelhorn plays his seemingly harmless bassoon, a wave of material-eating Gnurrs are summoned by the millions. He uses them to end the war against Bobovia.

A mysterious orchestra conductor who has grown a tail generates intrigue among members of New York's high society and captures the attention of a princess.

An oboist is told that he is only good for his playing. The oboist is determined to prove that he is also a talented composer as well.

As a man teaches his son to play the fiddle, a longtime feud comes back to haunt him.