Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. But ...

Archaeologists were perplexed by a strange pair of discs found in Oman – only to discover these items were actually a single 4,000-year-old instrument. The cymbals date to the third millennium B.C.

Well before the spoken word, early humans were singing, making the human voice the first musical instrument. Before language had evolved, it is speculated that the human voice was used to recreate the ...

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 ...

Once a week, every week at primary school, we would gather cross-legged on the classroom floor in a circle, wielding a recorder. The ear-splitting sound of Three Blind Mice (or something akin to it) ...

PHOENIX — From Johnny Cash’s guitar to Elvis Presley’s jacket and beyond, the Musical Instrument Museum has become a must-see in the Valley. This weekend, the museum is celebrating its 15-year ...

The soul-shattering abuses suffered by enslaved Africans, who were forcibly stripped of their languages, religions and other key aspects of their culture, were fortunately no match for their ...

Jared Katz is preparing for this month’s ‘Art in Tune’ when certain items in the museum’s extensive instrument collection can be both seen and heard For Boston Museum of Fine Arts curator of musical ...