From Apple Macintosh originator Jef Raskin’s love of the Renaissance-era cornetto to virtual reality pioneer Jarod Lanier’s mastery of various Asian wind and string instruments, there is a ...

Wind - you can blow into a bottle or a whistle to make these sounds. String - you can use rubber bands and pluck them like a guitar.

The kit includes $600 towards one-year's rental of a Yamaha wind or string instrument, one-year complimentary access to the Tomplay™ digital sheet music application with more than 80,000 sheet ...

It also has a long history in Chinese musical instruments – so much so that the Mandarin term sizhu, which translates as “ silk and bamboo”, refers to string and wind musical instruments.

The Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival is dominated by music for string instruments, sometimes with piano. That’s what the ...

A selection of improvised wind instruments came next, made from PVC pipes and sounding equally amazing; we especially liked the bass chromojara, sort of a flute with a didgeridoo sound to it.

These instruments are particularly special because each was designed, constructed, and played by students enrolled in the CEID ’s newest class, “Musical Acoustics & Instrument Design.” Co-taught last ...