The universe is alive with the sound of music. Humans will find music almost anywhere. We find it in the songs of birds or the long-distance communications of whales. We hear music in the chirping of ...

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

On The Map is where we highlight famous and not as well-known musical sites that you can visit. This month we check into a place that is top to bottom ...

PHOENIX — The Musical Instrument Museum is giving visitors a chance to experience the world of music like never before. Located in north Phoenix, MIM houses more than 200,000 square feet of space, ...

Bach never heard his harpsichord make sounds like this. Students in the History and Technology of Musical Instruments class taught by Matias Homar at Rochester Institute of Technology got the chance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The standard configuration of the symphony orchestra has remained mostly unchanged for the past century. But innovative artists ...

The octobass is a huge stringed instrument that is twice the size of a double bass when standing, about 3.6 meters, and the strings cannot be pressed as they are, so the strings are pressed with a ...

Learning to play a musical instrument produces such profound changes in children's brains that kids actually can hear and process sounds they couldn't hear otherwise, according to researchers using ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

While most musicians rely on roadies to tune their instruments, musicians at the Ice Music Festival work with a team of ice carvers to prep their gear. Located in Finse, Norway, the annual event is ...