It’s hard to say for sure, but something special happens when an old instrument meets contemporary creativity. These aren’t ...

Almost anything can be a musical instrument. A horse’s jawbone? A couple of rocks, a stick, and some string? An armadillo shell? A box with a constantly buzzing antenna sticking out of it? Something ...

Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...

Varun Kataria owns various nightlife venues in Bushwick, Brooklyn. His Sundays usually begin with creative projects and end with his dog, Mushroom. By Sara Aridi At the New York Philharmonic, the ...

Kawika Pangelinan has become a skilled and self-taught craftsman of numerous types of Hawaiian musical instruments.

Instruments that translate electronic music into physical actions and acoustic instruments that sound as space-age as any synthesizer are just some of the 20 semi-finalists in the 2015 Guthman Musical ...

A study by the University of Sheffield and the University of Western Sydney has shown that improvising to music can help ...

The idea of listening to some off-key chords may not seem ideal. But, contrary to popular belief, most parents actually want their kids to learn a musical instrument. A new study conducted by OnePoll ...

SOUTH SIOUX CITY -- "Hold your head up high and blow." Those were the instructions that Sioux City Symphony Orchestra musician Stephanie Kocher gave to 8-year-old Logan Cain as he tried to play the ...

Wendy Hargreaves does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

A new musical instrument drive aims to provide local kids with the gift of music while encouraging early spring cleaning.

Besides his work with pop stars and jazz greats, he is credited with helping to invent the six-string contrabass guitar. By Alex Traub Households with three or more children have declined sharply in ...