Owner Harvey Kertzman longed for the soulful music of a viola and had mounted a search for a player to serenade his customers. On a recent day, he got four.

A rare musical instrument, one of only 10 in the world, features in a festival of experimental sounds in Belfast that kicks ...

From ancient bagpipes to modern synthesisers, we trace the origins of 25 musical instruments across continents. It explores ...

Endo Schlaffer will move her harp into Moody Performance Hall to perform Claude Debussy’s Danse sacrée et danse profane as ...

I hadn’t touched a mandolin since adolescence, and, even then, I’d only fooled around. My wife was beside me. “Do it,” she ...

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When you're in a world-class chamber group like The Calidore String Quartet in Delaware, each instrument carries a colorful ...

Abstract: In this paper, we analyze four different methods for audio feature extraction and compare their efficiency in the context of musical instrument classification. We study spectrograms, Mel ...

Music nerds and lovers of fascinating inventions, rejoice! The 10 finalists in Georgia Tech’s annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition were announced recently, and they’re just as weird and ...

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 ...