It’s hard to say for sure, but something special happens when an old instrument meets contemporary creativity. These aren’t ...

An exhibition at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix features some of China's earliest known musical instruments, the oldest dating from 7,000 to 9,000 years ago. Experts analyzing instruments in ...

When researchers in China discovered a series of tombs and horse burials, they saw that the archaeological site had been pillaged. One tomb, a large construction in the shape of the letter “A,” likely ...

When Rene Jenkins blows into his digeridoo, all senses are trained on him. Sounding a deep and resonant timbre, he moves through a group with the silent agility of a wild cat, producing a cadence as ...

Ever heard or heard of a salpinx, barbiton, aulos, or syrinx? Well, neither has anyone else, for centuries (at least heard them). Until now. Credit: Luca Petrella These ancient instruments were common ...

Casually, like well-bred amateurs, the ten musicians adjusted lights and music racks, then began to play Handel’s Concerto Grosso in G Major. There was nothing casual, nothing amateurish about their ...

EVROPOS, Greece, Nov 28 (Reuters) - In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching ...

Ancient Chinese music performed by husband-and-wife duo Wang Jian-xin and Li Feng-yun on the historic instruments qin and xiao will be featured at Brigham Young University Friday, Sept. 18, in the ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Hymns sung to the Greek gods thousands of years ago resonated from ancient musical instruments in Athens on Thursday, transporting a transfixed audience to antiquity. The phorminx, ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - Michigan’s state motto translates to, “If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you.” Replace peninsula with museums, and that pretty well describes the University of Michigan in ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - What do you want to learn next fall? Sure, you can just take the prerequisites for that quantitative economics or neurobiology degree. Graduating on time: that’s a good thing, but what ...

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