Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...

Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier answers the internet's buzzing questions about instruments and musical theory. What is the difference between black and white piano keys? What ...

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Almost anything can be a musical instrument. A horse’s jawbone? A couple of rocks, a stick, and some string? An armadillo shell? A box with a constantly buzzing antenna sticking out of it? Something ...

It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. She taught me the piano by holding her hands over ...

Get ready for a musical journey through some of the most fascinating and unique instruments from around the world! From the deep rumble of the tuba to the ethereal sounds of the theremin, we're ...

Carlos Tomé became obsessed with going to classical music concerts when he was a young teenager in Madrid learning to play the violin. During the concerts, which he would attend daily, he’d read ...