One of the ways in which he's shaping a new sound is through some very old instruments. The oldest is a violin made in 1686 in Cremona, Italy. Since 2019, Noseda has been quietly loaning 17th ...

But innovative artists continue to design new instruments to create sounds never before heard. Correspondent David Pogue attended the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at Georgia Institute of ...

"I had very low expectations for how it was going to sound. I just thought it would look interesting because it was different," said Gary Zimnicki, owner of the custom instrument business.

That sound varies dramatically from instrument to instrument, and can vary even more depending on the mouthpiece and, obviously, the player. Generally, late 19th- and early 20th-century ...

The sounds of a harp-like instrument called the yazh, named for the mythological animal Yali whose image was carved into its stem, once filled the halls of temples and royal courts in southern India.

While there are enhancements and minor improvements across the board here, it’s all about new sounds, instruments, beat creation and making sure it all fits perfectly on the edge-to-edge iPhone ...

The ensemble is in residence at Notre Dame, where faculty engineers developed the instruments used in "Wild Sound." Modern musicians often delight in a do-it-yourself ethos. But in a new piece to ...

But scientists have been arguing for years about precisely why these instruments have such superior sound. A recent paper published in the journal Angewandte Chemie concludes that the secret lies ...