A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.

David Tudor was born in West Philly in 1926 and, at least for a musical prodigy, his career started out conventionally enough. He began studying the piano at age 6 before switching his focus to the ...

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 ...

New York-based music data and analytics provider, MRC Data, reported that last year 70% of the U.S. music market consists of vintage tunes. While songs might be embracing the past, musical instruments ...

Arielle Lewis from Education Through Music introduces a variety of musical instruments. Arielle Lewis from Education Through Music children to musical instruments including the guitar, violin, piano.

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 ...

Learning any instrument for the first time is going to take time and dedication. There are so many benefits to learning an instrument. Once you get the hang of it, playing music can help relieve ...

USA TODAY has announced the nominees for their 10Best Reader's Choice Awards in the museum category and a world-famous Phoenix museum has made the cut. The Musical Instrument Museum came in at No. 9 ...

MaST Charter School music teacher Kelly Knittle evaluates a French horn as she selects instruments for her students from a trove of donated instruments offered by Musicopia. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Last ...

Instrument maker Roland —  known for its synthesizers and drum machines, among other things – has launched a new ...

The oldest known musical instruments— flutes carved from bones —are over 40,000 years old. And humans were likely making music before that, based on fossils showing our ancestors had the ability to ...