If you had no idea what “music” was, and you came upon “Treasures: Legendary Musical Instruments,” this special exhibition at the Musical Instrument Museum here, you would still know that something ...

In the last eighty years, traditional Kongo musical instruments such as elaborate bells, all sorts of drums and whistles, have almost disappeared from Kongo life. Still, MacGaffey speaks of them in ...

Nicolas Bras has built more than 1,500 strange sonic experiments using reclaimed wood, scrap metal, and PVC pipe.

Music has always been humanity’s most universal language — but not every instrument plays by the rules. From a glass contraption that reportedly drove players to madness, to a harp powered entirely by ...

Jared Katz is preparing for this month’s ‘Art in Tune’ when certain items in the museum’s extensive instrument collection can be both seen and heard For Boston Museum of Fine Arts curator of musical ...

UTRECHT, The Netherlands — Right off the city’s main commercial thoroughfare, where bicycles zoom past with a clinking sound, is one of the Netherlands’ most surprising treasures, the Museum Speelklok ...

Musical instruments are not always the first thing that comes to mind when you think of architecture, but they are often embedded into landmark buildings. This month, several other unique instruments ...

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 ...