David Tudor was born in West Philly in 1926 and, at least for a musical prodigy, his career started out conventionally enough. He began studying the piano at age 6 before switching his focus to the ...

While most musicians rely on roadies to tune their instruments, musicians at the Ice Music Festival work with a team of ice carvers to prep their gear. Located in Finse, Norway, the annual event is ...

Networked music performance (NMP) and smart musical instruments represent a dynamic convergence of digital communications, sensor technologies, and musical creativity. By leveraging advanced ...

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

New York-based music data and analytics provider, MRC Data, reported that last year 70% of the U.S. music market consists of vintage tunes. While songs might be embracing the past, musical instruments ...

Last Thursday, the Yale School of Music made an announcement that brings the history of Yale’s Collection of Musical Instruments full circle. Timothy Steinert ’82 — great-great-grandson of Morris ...

It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. She taught me the piano by holding her hands over ...

Condensed from a story posted on the UC Davis Department of Music website UC Davis music student, and now graduate William Storz ‘20, an award-winning musician in his own right, helped lecturer Phebe ...

The oldest known musical instruments— flutes carved from bones —are over 40,000 years old. And humans were likely making music before that, based on fossils showing our ancestors had the ability to ...

JEFFERSON AS MUSICIAN He was an incurable tinkerer with a keen interest in all the technical innovations for instruments, and corresponded with friends about all the new and “often peculiar things to ...

Founded in 1975, Ikebe Musical Instruments Store has led Japan’s musical instrument distribution market. In March 2021, it ...