Luoshe town, a small town in East China's Zhejiang Province, produces more than 50,000 pianos a year, accounting for one-seventh of China's total piano production. Pianos made here are exported to ...

The electric guitar is undergoing one of its periodic revivals. While the instrument is regularly written off as old and embarrassing technology, beloved by Boomers and irrelevant to modern mores, ...

For as far back as we are able to look into the prehistory of the human race, music has been a crucial part of the life of humans. Some scholars even speculate that human music may have come before ...

Where do you begin a history of electronic music and the synthesizer? The popular and somewhat easy view is that the two are entwined, that electronic music started with the invention of the ...

A second-hand instrument shop, run by a charity which creates musical experiences for people with learning difficulties, will close. Electric Umbrella, based in Watford, helps its members to make ...

V.—Brass Instruments and the Low “F.” LEAVING the pendulums which have only two vibrations at a time, the case of brass instruments with a number of simultaneous vibrations was next considered. It is ...

What’s the strangest musical instrument? How about the sackbut, the glass armonica, the theremin, the ondes martenot, or the Telharmonium, Trautonium, or Badgermin? What’s the strangest musical ...