Experts explain when it’s time to break out a new set, how environmental factors play their part, and what you can do to make ...

Aston Magna returns to Great Barrington with four concerts featuring Bach, Vivaldi and lesser-known Baroque composers, ...

The story of how a community band from rural Thailand reclaimed the relics of conflict to reinvent traditional folk music for ...

Small string instruments pack an outsized musical punch. They slip into a backpack, travel easily, and still deliver rich tone that can fill a room or cut through a noisy session. Yet many players ...

The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky A hushed chord sustained by the second violin, viola and cello. Fragments of a melody ...

The plucked string has been singing since before history bothered to write anything down. Walk through any museum wing dedicated to ancient civilizations and you will see them: fragments of wood, bone ...

Every musical instrument that exists or could ever exist, anywhere on Earth, can be sorted into four groups by the physical thing that vibrates to make the sound. Four groups, he argues, are enough.

The B line on the New York City subway is a tenor saxophone. The A is a jazz trombone. And the No. 3 train is an upright bass. Joshua Wolk is a designer and engineer who assigned different instruments ...

Apple TV‘s Murderbot blends science-fiction, comedy, human emotion and many more elements, so the music is just as eclectic. Composer Amanda Jones conducted a performance of some of her designs at ...

Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an instrument’s final sound. MIT engineers hope to streamline that ...

If Western civilization were asked, in the terms of the old Reader’s Digest column, to name the Most Unforgettable Character It Ever Met, it would surely answer, with a single, sighing voice: Paul.

In our daily lives, there are many miraculous scientific and technological concepts we take for granted. For example, your favorite Bluetooth speaker from a major brand on your desk is able to play ...