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

Hallmark senior artist Matt Kesler places handlebars atop a pair of French horns, in preparation for the final stage of a piece he calls “The French Peddler.” The work goes up for auction July 12 at ...

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 ...

Children can learn about Native American cultural history while making a musical craft at a Poway event on Saturday, March 1. Docents will guide children ages 5 to 10 years old in making rattles, ...

The first flutes excavated in China were made from bone. Today, ones made from bamboo are widely used in Chinese music and opera This is the seventh in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...