A treasure trove of unique musical instruments invented and built by pioneering composer Harry Partch between 1930 and 1972 were quietly returned to San Diego last week, ending a 33-year-long ...

WHEN AND WHERE: 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, at Flickinger Center for the Arts, 1110 N. New York Ave., Alamogordo; 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 12, Macey Center, 801 Leroy ...

Haymes calls himself a “utility infielder” in Ramblin Jug Stompers, responsible for many of the unusual sounds that don’t come from the typical stringed instruments in acoustic bands. At the band’s ...

Musical innovation and uniqueness is what tends to set great artists apart from their contemporaries. Especially when it comes to the use of creative, unorthodox, or perhaps odd, instruments. Or ...

The New York Times has called Yasmin Williams ‘one of the country's most imaginative young solo guitarists' ...

Duck herders in Java have been using a traditional large bamboo object called a kowangan to protect themselves against the rain. The kowangan can be worn as a hat or be placed on the ground as a ...

African musical instruments have long been an integral part of the continent's cultural heritage, but now, diaspora artists ...

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 ...