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 ...

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 ...

Yes, the C1 is shaped like a guitar and makes sounds like a guitar, but it is definitely something different. Made to be highly portable similar to other collapsible guitars, it folds up to fit in ...

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 ...

The Zefiro’s companion app offers around 32 different sound options, allowing them to emulate almost any instrument, from soft-pitched flutes and violins to brassy trumpets, saxophones, and even ...

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 ...