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 ...

The 28th annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition includes a Fiddle-Henge, a modified bicycle wheel, and a 'Demon Box.' ...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --"We wanted to create a new hand percussion instrument that would allow a musician to simulate various sounds associated with a drum set using his or her hands, ...

As Seth Colter Walls wrote here yesterday, New York has lately been an excellent place for exploring the “difficult music,” the Stockhausens and Cages, of the past 50 years. Much of this music—which ...