If you can hum then you can play the “most democratic” instrument in the world — the kazoo. The modest instrument is right up there with the recorder and the baby xylophone as the first instrument ...

Almost anything can be a musical instrument. A horse’s jawbone? A couple of rocks, a stick, and some string? An armadillo shell? A box with a constantly buzzing antenna sticking out of it? Something ...

From an Ancient Egyptian harp and Ghanaian drum to Stradivari violins, a theremin, and even a vuvuzela, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s newly reopened musical instrument galleries run the gamut of ...

Darryl Martin examines a harpsichord during a tour at the National Music Museum. Martin moved to Vermillion from Belgium for the chance to manage one of the world’s most significant instrument ...

The Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments — a leading institution that acquires, preserves and exhibits musical instruments from antiquity to the present — is one of many Yale museums ...

African instruments are rich and unique in their sounds. With such uniqueness in sound, they have influenced music from other parts of the world. Here are 7 musical instruments whose origin dates back ...