What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In ...

Visitors to the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s new exhibition, “Building a Better Mousetrap,” will see a version of a popular 19th-century tourist experience that is fittingly diminutive. Visitors ...

Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think about it. A strip of brass and a few keys gave birth to jazz. A solid block ...

The Telharmonium was revealed to the world in the early 1900s. This extremely heavy (as in, around 210 tons) organ-like instrument utilized electromagnetic generators, which rotated to produce pulses ...

The turntable, invented 36 years ago, ranks as the most recently created music-making device with staying power. Have computers replaced the need for the next guitar? Composer and inventor Tod ...

Adding to his catalogue of achievements, Christopher Taylor can now call himself an inventor of an instrument that is the only one of its kind: the hyper piano. Taylor, a University of Wisconsin music ...