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At Tampa Music School in Wesley Chapel, students aren’t just learning how to play traditional instruments, they're also ...
Wood is a common material in many Chinese musical instruments, but relatively few are classified as wooden under the system that assigns instruments to one of eight categories, the bayin.
Musical innovation and uniqueness is what tends to set great artists apart from their contemporaries. Especially when it comes to the use of creative, unorthodox, or perhaps odd, instruments.
Matthew Sweet looks at unusual instruments used in film scores such ... He traces the development of electronics in film music, from 'electronic tonalities' in Forbidden Planet, to the Moog ...
Odd Ball is a company that makes ... breaks down the initial learning barriers that a music lover has to overcome when they try to learn an instrument, a piece of equipment or software,” he ...
Movies set in the past often rely on music to tell us just where we are ... he spent months seeking out unusual instruments that might suggest the ancient Roman empire: ancient woodwinds ...
The only ancient musical instruments that still survive tend to ... described the cymbals as unique. "These cymbals are the first of their kind to have been found in good archaeological contexts ...
A treasure trove of unique musical instruments invented and built by pioneering composer Harry Partch between 1930 and 1972 were quietly returned to San Diego last week, ending a 33-year-long ...
World-renowned traditional musician Andy Irvine has lost two of his musical instruments worth €16,000 while travelling from Dublin Airport. Irvine, who turned 80 last month, flew to the Skagen ...