We all know the names of common musical instruments, but this list of 11 unusual musical instruments with weird names will show you that there are some out there you’ve never seen or heard about.

Extracting Music From Anything, August 1937 Pop Sci Archives Ohio State University professor Charles C. Weideman had more than 100 home-built instruments made from strange materials such as garden ...

I was dragged down a series of ratholes that led to some strange devices designed to make music in unconventional ways. Maybe someone can take this list of the weirdest musical instruments and put ...

Join us as we count down our top ten most weird and wonderful instruments. A shimmering ... sophistication of recorded technology quickly turned his invention into a musical oddity. For years the ...

Let’s discover some of the most weird and wonderful instruments in world music. The identity of the first person to play music with a household saw has been lost to history, but its origins are ...

For the past 26 years, the Guthman Competition at Georgia Tech’s Department of Music has introduced the world to strange and innovative instruments. The contest welcomes inventors from all over ...

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.

This is the ninth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

Students are learning music in a well-rounded way by playing unusual instruments at the Tampa Music School. From tissue box ukuleles, to egg-shaker maracas and overturned buckets as drums ...

Credit: Dragon Librarian / Wikimedia Commons However, the concept of internal combustion turned out to have other astonishing applications, one of which was music, aligning with the 18th-century trend ...