This Pennsylvania music museum celebrates the sounds of another era with rare collections, classic tunes, and historic charm.

Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. But ...

TRAVERSE CITY — What started as a way of figuring out a more transportable bass guitar has since put creatively hand-craft instruments into the hands of other musicians thanks to Caul Bluhm. Bluhm — a ...

Reconstruction of a seashell being played as an instrument. In the background, a red dotted buffalo decorates the walls of the Marsoulas Cave; similar motifs decorate the instrument. Almost 80 years ...

A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.

Promising violinists can get their hands on a Stradivarius and other 18th century instruments through a lending program out of Chicago. A final note or notes this hour. (SOUNDBITE OF JOSHUA BROWN ...

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Pianos use little hammers striking taut strings to make tones. The Mellotron used lots of individual tape mechanisms. Meanwhile, the Trans-Harmonium from [Emily Francisco] uses an altogether more ...