The 28th annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition includes a Fiddle-Henge, a modified bicycle wheel, and a 'Demon Box.' ...

When the notes of a favorite song come on the radio or the first line of a favorite hymn is heard, the power of memory can ...

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 ...

New year, new you? Learning a new skill will put you right on track, and playing a musical instrument is one of the simplest skills to acquire. It has wide-ranging benefits: Cognitive abilities – Aids ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many parents would agree it’s hard to call the first few notes a child makes on a rented band instrument “music,” but it’s a necessary step toward eventually learning how to play. “The first sounds on ...