Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for cool, widely learned or otherwise interesting musical instruments. However, we’ll be omitting instruments that are the only one of ...

Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...

One of the biggest highlights of the performance was the instruments brought by Pedro Eustache, widely known as The Flute Guy ...

The word “symphony” is ultimately from Greek “symphonia,” concord of sounds, harmony, a meld of “syn-,” together (as in synchronize, synthesis) and “phōnẽ,” sound (as in phonetics, telephone). The ...

In musical terms, this means writing for the orchestral instruments as they currently exist, adding new voices and techniques at the peril of being relegated to special “new music festivals” meant to ...

John Lennon holds a French horn, but Paul McCartney was the instrument's real fan JASPER REES: Alan Civil, who was the principal horn of the Philharmonia, was the soloist on “For No One”. How did he ...

When judged by its size, our vocal system fails to impress as a musical instrument. How then can singers produce all those remarkable sounds? The human vocal system would not receive much acclaim if ...

New research suggests that a collection of conch shells unearthed in Spain may have once produced melodies, in addition to ...

CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

From Stradivarius violins to Steinway grands, soaring values and fragile risks expose costly coverage gaps standard home ...