Ever heard or heard of a salpinx, barbiton, aulos, or syrinx? Well, neither has anyone else, for centuries (at least heard them). Until now. Credit: Luca Petrella These ancient instruments were common ...

When Rene Jenkins blows into his digeridoo, all senses are trained on him. Sounding a deep and resonant timbre, he moves through a group with the silent agility of a wild cat, producing a cadence as ...

Entering the main office of the Anderson Center, a historic estate just outside Red Wing, it's not uncommon to hear music, since the property has long served as an artists community. But this month, ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

René Jenkins, who has mastered a host of ancient indigenous instruments from the Didjeridu of Australia to Tibetan bowls and bells to ritual flutes from Mayan, Peruvian, Zapotec and Hawaiian cultures, ...

Look what Tastefully Offensive found that Gizmodo found that we found: a girl playing the Super Mario Bros. theme on a sheng, “a Chinese instrument invented thousands of years ago.” What’s so neat ...

Go find a long chunk of stone, hang it from a tree or a viga and strike it with another stone. Will it ring like a bell? It is perhaps hard to imagine, but stone bells used by Pueblo peoples in their ...

This ancient Chinese instrument is called a sheng. It's a woodwind instrument made of bamboo that sounds deceptively similar to steel drums. It's actually been around since 1100 BCE and sounds like it ...

We’re assuming that when the musical instrument known as the sheng was invented in China thousands of years ago, no one knew that it would one day be used to play a magically spot-on version of the ...

Powerful grid computing has revived a stringed musical instrument that was last played in ancient Greece, Italian researchers announced at a recent conference in Catania, Sicily. Called an epigonion ...