, is a brooding rumble of sound. It's the kind of music that says dinosaurs could crash through the windows at any second. But that's not why it had members of the West Houston Concert Band on the ...
Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...
After retiring from social work, Ken Arney wanted to pick up a hobby to fill his time. He picked up a few old music instruments, but instead of learning how to play them, he decided to give the ...
The slides and bells from about a dozen trombones are stacked like cordwood in the wall sculpture “Seussaphone.” Tarnished parts of old cornets, trombones and other instruments are built onto an old ...
What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In ...
The artifacts represent the earliest-known stringed instruments found in Southeast Asia. A reconstruction of the chordophone, crafted out of deer antler. Photo: Antiquity (2023). DOI: ...
Hallmark senior artist Matt Kesler places handlebars atop a pair of French horns, in preparation for the final stage of a piece he calls “The French Peddler.” The work goes up for auction July 12 at ...
The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, suggests that the first humans to occupy Europe had a fairly sophisticated culture. The instrument was excavated from a cave in Germany. The wing bone of ...
Do you have an old horn around that you don't really give a toot about anymore? That instrument may be just what is needed to help a Beaver Dam elementary school student develop a lifelong love of ...