Sounds can be made by twanging a string, blowing down a pipe, banging something together, and scraping or shaking something. There are three families of musical instruments: string, wind and ...

A virtual reality musical instrument has been developed that can mimic thousands of instruments through a 3D sensor. The design of Pulse means that it can recognise movement on its surface or in the ...

Music transcends many barriers that divide us, going beyond the written word to achieve a deeper resonance across cultures and national boundaries. Some instruments have been purposefully built to ...

Instruments from nearly 1,000 years ago have been recreated by students at a world-renowned music school here in Newark.

India is a country rich in tradition and skill. Be it the ancient dance forms that entertain and inform people even today, to the forms of ‘nataks’ and ‘jatras’ that show society a mirror, Indian art ...

It takes hours of practice and years of experience to become a piano virtuoso or a concert violinist. But a new app that works alongside a small USB device lets people create music using hand gestures ...

If you’re staying on the International Space Station for a few months at a time, you probably have some free time to kill – so it’s natural you might try and get a few hours of practice in. But what ...

Sounds can be made by twanging a string, blowing down a pipe, banging something together, and scraping or shaking something. There are three families of musical instruments: string, wind and ...