Study finds prehistoric hunter-gatherers in South Texas may have crafted musical instruments from human bones.

The theremin’s “woo-ooo” sound has haunted music and cinema lovers for years. Carolina Eyck is the world’s best player, but ...

The Guthman Musical Instrument Competition is a glimpse into the future of music-making—one shaped by engineers, musicians, and inventors pushing the boundaries of sound. Held annually at ...

As strange instruments go, this one might take the biscuit. It’s an automatic piano with just four keys, and, as soon as you press a key to play a note, the whole set of four move quickly away, ...

Now, can that be used to make music? Incredibly, the answer is yes, and in fact, an instrument with that system has existed since the last quarter of the 19th century: the pyrophone. Meanwhile, in ...

The Theremin turns 100 years old this month, so we thought we’d take a look at this strange instrument. One hundred years ago, a young Russian physicist named Lev Sergeyevich Termen, better ...