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

Every now and then, music gets a guitar hero—a player who makes the instrument sound like something other than itself. Jeff ...

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

As Ford returns with Two Shades of Blue, the Californian guitar legend drops by for a video lesson and to talk all things ...

The Baroque period (roughly 1600–1750) was a time of great creativity and change in music. Composers began to focus more on expressing emotions clearly and powerfully. One of the most important ideas ...

Not quite like a gig or going clubbing, but there's a new night out spreading in cities around the world: an evening at a ...

Over 3,000 elementary school students from the Wabash Valley were given the chance to experience the joy of playing an ...

Ever since leaving Turtle Island Quartet in 2012 in the wake of the string ensemble’s two Grammy Awards, Mads Tolling has ...

The first Canadian Sound Maps residency by U.K. arts organization Dyski gathered creatives to translate a place into music.

Gik Acoustics makes acoustic panels that don’t look like weird hunks of insulation. Its SoundBlocks system that I tried out ...

For more than 20 years Hawai'i's Jake Shimabukuro has used his mastery of ukulele to apply the instrument in new and fresh ...

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor on Saturday, April 11 was one of those moments when it was good to be alive: it was good to be alive ...