CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

The Symphony for a Broken Orchestra installation of broken instruments at Temple Contemporary (courtesy Robert Blackson) The School District of Philadelphia has over 1,000 broken musical instruments, ...

If you were scouting through the internet to find what are the 6 hardest instruments to play for kids in an orchestra, we are going to ease your research with our list. Music has a huge impact on the ...

SPOKANE, Wash. --- Good news for families with students planning to join band or orchestra in the fall. The Spokane Public Schools board is expected to approve a bid price for the purchase of new ...

The goal: reinvent the ways that both composer and listener approach the modern classical orchestra. Friar’s work focused on introducing new instruments into the centuries-old ensemble—in this case, ...

They’ve got the beet. A touring orchestra using instruments entirely of vegetables just earned itself a world record. The Vegetable Orchestra, which only plays instruments that are carved out of ...

Orchestras began tuning to the oboe, in part, because its sound was more penetrating in a performance setting than gut strings. There were also fewer oboes than violins, and in the earliest orchestras ...

Learn about the brass family of instruments — their sounds, mouthpieces and harmonics. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, hosts this exploration of ...

German-based music software-maker, Ableton, has released four new sampled instrument collections for its Ableton Live digital audio workstation. The collections represent the four areas of an ...