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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 ...

A while ago, I was interviewed about wind instruments on the theme of "starting a musical instrument as an adult."That got me thinking again: musical instruments are quite essential "brain learning ...

It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. She taught me the piano by holding her hands over ...

Fender is revamping its online presence amid a shifting market for musical instruments moving toward premium offerings, ...

For the past 26 years, the Guthman Competition at Georgia Tech’s Department of Music has introduced the world to strange and innovative instruments. The contest welcomes inventors from all over the ...

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