What will the future of music sound like? Thanks to a one-of-a-kind competition, we're about to find out!
What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In ...
Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...
While most musicians rely on roadies to tune their instruments, musicians at the Ice Music Festival work with a team of ice carvers to prep their gear. Located in Finse, Norway, the annual event is ...
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 ...
Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...
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 ...
The oldest known musical instruments— flutes carved from bones —are over 40,000 years old. And humans were likely making music before that, based on fossils showing our ancestors had the ability to ...
Three organizations are collecting donated instruments in Lawrence to refurbish and give to students who otherwise couldn’t ...
If you own a musical instrument, you should know that proper care doesn’t just include replacing guitar strings and cleaning dust out from under violin bridges — it also involves protecting your ...