We're coming up on the 100th anniversary of the electric guitar, and it's been fascinating to hear how this simple instrument ...
Last year, Brazil lost one of its most famous musicians: Naná Vasconcelos, who put an instrument called the berimbau on the world's musical map. It's a kind of bow with a gourd attached, and it is the ...
When Provincetown musician Roxanne Layton was six, her father encouraged her to take up the recorder. He was building a large schooner and intended to take her on a long voyage and thought a portable ...
You no longer have to be a Stradivarius, a Gibson, or even a Steinway to make your own musical instruments. Anyone with access to a 3D printer and this simple software, developed by Autodesk Research, ...