What is it: Play It Forward — Classical MPR's Musical Instrument Drive. People with old instruments can donate them to their local schools. Instruments being accepted: brass, woodwinds, string ...

This picture shows early music duo Michael and Doreen Muskett in January 6 1979, who were both to perform a concert organised by Blackburn Concert Society. They were due to present a programme called ...

For one day only: David Mahoney and members of The 'Not New' Novello Orchestra A national music project to get people to hand over their old and unused instruments to children is being launched. A ...

"This is a 15-course lute to go with your average 15-course Tudor dinner." Richard Stilgoe reviews some new old instruments on Nationwide. BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 14 May 1974. 1974: New old ...

In cupboards and attics across Wales hundreds of musical instruments lie gathering dust, silent for years after their last note was played. Now a group of musicians is helping bring a tune back to ...

It’s the season for giving, and Stephens Auditorium is extending a helping hand to aspiring young musicians. For the second year, Stephens is holding a Used Instrument Drive. Donated instruments will ...

The woodwinds were made to mimic the screech of a raptor, and they trace back to the beginning of the transition to agriculture. Archaeologists never know what they’ll discover in the dirt. And that’s ...

Where Basildon leads, can Britain follow? James Rhodes thinks so. The country’s most unconventional classical musician – a man who has overcome abuse as a child and a period in mental hospitals to ...

When Heather Cowan's £5,000 violin was stolen, she thought it was lost for ever. The thief was caught and convicted, but still there was no sign of 111-year-old instrument. That was until it was ...