“How come we’ve never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?” This was posted by a first-year college student to my world music course discussion board recently. He voiced what many of his ...

African instruments are rich and unique in their sounds. With such uniqueness in sound, they have influenced music from other parts of the world. Here are 7 musical instruments whose origin dates back ...

Origins -- Drums -- Flutes and recorders -- Reeds -- "Brass" instruments: trumpets and horns -- String instruments -- Pipe organs -- Electrophones https://siris ...

From playing clarinets used in Mozart’s time to reconstructing instruments from paintings, period musicians are recreating ...