In the last eighty years, traditional Kongo musical instruments such as elaborate bells, all sorts of drums and whistles, have almost disappeared from Kongo life. Still, MacGaffey speaks of them in ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has just reopened its musical instrument galleries after a two-year renovation project. The new permanent installation includes more than 5,000 instruments and ...

Researchers have invented an algorithm that produces a real-time portamento effect, gliding a note at one pitch into a note of another pitch, between any two audio signals, such as a piano note ...

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The outside of the Brömserhof, the 15th-century knight’s manor where the museum is housed. Rudesheim Tourist AG/Marlis-Steinmetz A tour guide shows visitors a scroll from which music is played.

Which is the oldest musical instrument in the world? Peer inside the prehistoric cave discovery that dates back an ...