KING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS has been responsible for redesigning and improving the tonal and playing quality of more than 28 instruments, including the slide trombone, cornet, trumpet, and clarinet. It ...

A growing group of investors is viewing music—as in unusual and expensive instruments—as a wise place to put cash. Not only can a musical instrument offer substantial financial returns; it is ...

Instruments from 17th-century violins to guitars from the 1950s can offer returns that are music to investors’ ears. But there are pitfalls to be avoided, including giving emotion too much weight.

Terje Isungset on the ice horn Emile Holba While most musicians rely on roadies to tune their instruments, musicians at the Ice Music Festival work with a team of ice carvers to prep their gear ...

As composer Edgard Varese put it in 1936, "It is because new instruments have been constantly added to the old ones that Western music has such a rich and varied patrimony." So what happened?

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...