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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The Los Angeles Times took home its first Oscar Sunday night for “‘The Last Repair Shop,” a film about four people who repair and service instruments for music students across LAUSD. The largest of ...

On Saturday, October 5th Instruments For Education and Focus Features will collect instruments for local students! Instruments for Education is a Nashville-based 501-C3 non-profit organization whose ...

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 ...