Discover the glass armonica, Benjamin Franklin's remarkable musical invention, and the musician keeping its haunting sound ...

Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...

CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

Ludwig Göransson built The Odyssey score with ancient instruments, bronze percussion, synthesizers, and James Blake's voice, ...

Oxford University in the UK has announced that researchers from that school and Germany’s University of Tübingen have determined the age on the world’s oldest musical instruments: a collection of ...

They've got the beet. A touring orchestra using instruments entirely of vegetables just earned itself a world record. The Vegetable Orchestra, which only plays instruments that are carved out of ...

After a music career that's taken him around the world, Eddy Jay has turned to cutting-edge manufacturing to make his own instruments.