As a radical new two-string violin goes on display in New York, Clemency Burton-Hill looks at some more odd instruments, from the octobass to the theremin. Next month, visitors to the Inside 3D ...
Have you ever seen a picture or painting of an instrument and thought, “What the heck is that?” Join us as we count down our top ten most weird and wonderful instruments. A shimmering, ethereal and ...
There are many examples of odd-ball instrumentation in music from the last half-century, from The Beatles' use of the sitar and tabla, through the claim that Anton Newcombe (of The Brian Jonestown ...