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

Origins: “My family was musical, and we grew up playing country and bluegrass and folk music, and I was interested in taking apart instruments,” KiLin Reece says about growing up in Bonny Doon, ...

Brooklyn, New York-based musical instrument company D’Addario has announced its string-recycling program, Playback, has achieved its latest milestone of 2 million strings recycled. D’Addario says it ...

This book addresses core questions about the role of materials in general and of wood in particular in the construction of string instruments used in the modern symphony orchestra - violins, violas, ...

Like most people these days, sound artist Ellen Fullman is sheltering in place. But she has an unusual roommate: a massive installation she calls the Long String Instrument. Filling the ground floor ...

The unveiling ceremony was organized during the closing ceremony of the 12th Woodwork Exhibition at Tehran’s Niavaran Culture Center. The instrument takes its name from the first letters of the artist ...

We all know the names of common musical instruments, but this list of 11 unusual musical instruments with weird names will show you that there are some out there you’ve never seen or heard about. As ...

When we think about rock music, we can agree it's a genre most commonly plied and voiced via the instrument of electric guitar. While rock and the guitar are not mutually exclusive, and the insights ...

The Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival returns to Pittsburgh this weekend. Microtonal music, according to festival organizers, “expands the possibilities of sound by using tuning systems beyond, or in ...

Ellen Fullman is sheltering in place with the 40-string, 45-foot-long droning instrument she created decades ago. The sound artist Ellen Fullman near her home in Berkeley, Calif.Credit...Erin ...