What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In ...

Learn how the clarinet makes sound and explore its role in the woodwind family. In a hands-on music lesson, Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, ...

Researchers captured sound fields around musical triangles. They wanted to understand the physical properties of the triangle instrument, test assumptions about the contribution of the triangle shape, ...

Music has a funny way of surprising us. Sometimes it's not the guitar solo or the vocal runs that stick with you. You know the ones. The tracks where you pause and think, what is that? That little ...

Listen to how Tchaikovsky uses the celesta in “The Nutcracker,” unleashing the potential of the instrument to signal playfulness and fantasy. By Joshua Barone Photographs and Video by Vincent Tullo ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

Invented by accident in the 1920s, the unusual electronic instrument is hard to master but offers an enticing reward: freedom. Invented by accident in the 1920s, the unusual electronic instrument is ...

For the triangle, researchers captured proof that resonance occurs even with the notched, open corner, and it may occur in other instrument shapes as well. WASHINGTON, May 6, 2025 – The triangle is a ...