Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

The first electric guitar played in public. The first Hawaiian-made ukulele. Eric Clapton’s 1956 Fender Stratocaster, “Brownie,” which helped create his signature sound on classic songs like “Layla” ...

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 ...

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a group of musical instruments including a guitar, drum, keyboard, tambourine.(Getty Images/iStockphoto/thegoodphoto) WASHINGTON — One library in Rockville ...