CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

The Symphony for a Broken Orchestra installation of broken instruments at Temple Contemporary (courtesy Robert Blackson) The School District of Philadelphia has over 1,000 broken musical instruments, ...

Community Children Discover the Magic of the Orchestra at VSU’s Tunes for Tots. The Valdosta Symphony Guild recently ...

A suspected crook struck a sour note after stealing instruments worth tens of thousands of dollars. The man accused of orchestrating the crime stole from South Florida’s youth, and despite an arrest, ...

An Austrian musical ensemble that has been around for about 18 years, the Vegetable Orchestra is all about playing sweet symphonies with nothing but instruments made entirely of vegetables. It all ...

If you were scouting through the internet to find what are the 6 hardest instruments to play for kids in an orchestra, we are going to ease your research with our list. Music has a huge impact on the ...

This summer the Eastman Music Company, in consultation with musicians of the Orchestra, will unveil a new line of instruments, starting with strings and expanding later into other families of ...

The goal: reinvent the ways that both composer and listener approach the modern classical orchestra. Friar’s work focused on introducing new instruments into the centuries-old ensemble—in this case, ...

Before the timpani became an orchestral instrument, during the Civil War, people used to play on the horseback. This type of drum has a skin which is called head and it is stretched on a large bowl ...