We find animals so musical, in fact, that we imagine them holding singing competitions to save failing theaters (the premise of the 2016 animated film Sing). Our capacity for seeking out melodies ...

Sounds can be made by twanging a string, blowing down a pipe, banging something together, and scraping or shaking something. There are three families of musical instruments: string, wind and ...

Guitars are one of the most popular musical instruments around, ... A rompler is a type of synthesizer that uses pre-selected sounds as samples to imitate a bunch of different sounds.

Bach never heard his harpsichord make sounds like this. Students in the History and Technology of Musical Instruments class taught by Matias Homar at Rochester Institute of Technology got the chance ...

National Symphony Orchestra Music Director Gianandrea Noseda is reshaping the ensemble's sound with the help of 17th and 18th century instruments he purchased secretly.

"People from different backgrounds might not immediately understand an instrument like the erhu," Li said. "But when they hear it, they feel something. That's the power of music, it doesn't need ...

One of the first people who installed it was Ty Unwin, and he writes beautiful choral music – he made FOLDS sound grand and lush, then we went to Mark Canham’s place, and he made it sound small and ...

From the earliest playable musical instruments to their roles in a modern four-section orchestra, Chinese traditional instruments and their 8,000-year history explained.

At the Ordway Concert Hall on Friday evening, composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Nyttu Chongo brought together traditional sounds from Mozambique with Western classical music instruments ...