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

Hallmark senior artist Matt Kesler places handlebars atop a pair of French horns, in preparation for the final stage of a piece he calls “The French Peddler.” The work goes up for auction July 12 at ...

Young people are being encouraged to take up the traditional art of playing the steel pan musical instrument. CultureMix Art, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — There was a better-than-expected turnout for the annual Music is Art Instrument Drive. Staff and volunteers were on hand Saturday afternoon, repairing instruments and giving ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the second article in "The Art of Listening" series. Last week, I started a series about listening to music. It’s an everyday activity, but something that often gets overlooked, ...

Tim Linhart creates violins, cellos, and entire orchestras from ice, performing concerts inside a frozen concert hall.

Will Mosheim, 35, began playing music when he was 10 and plays the guitar, bass, fiddle and banjo as a musician-for-hire in a number of groups. The banjo is his latest instrument - he began playing it ...

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 ...

Art and music classrooms are built on something AI will never fully replicate: the deeply personal act of creating something ...

The Ravanahatha is one of the oldest bowed string instruments in the world. It is made from a coconut shell resonator, a bamboo neck, and a horsehair bow. This combination produces a raw, haunting ...