Haymes calls himself a “utility infielder” in Ramblin Jug Stompers, responsible for many of the unusual sounds that don’t come from the typical stringed instruments in acoustic bands. At the band’s ...

They're the ones keeping classical cool. A cadre of performers under 40 are doing their best to keep instruments such as the violin, piano and cello front and center in music lover's minds. Artists ...

Certain instruments have yet to place themselves beyond how the public and most musicians perceive them, but that hasn't stopped some musicians from distinguishing themselves by taking a different ...

Internationally celebrated clarinet master Anat Cohen is well on her way to making her chosen instrument cool again, be it for fans of jazz, Brazilian choro music or the genre-leaping hybrid she ...

There is more than one reason why the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is considered to be pioneering. Of the four instruments on JWST, it's the only one ...

PEDESTRIAN.TV has teamed up with Yamaha Music Australia, so you can pick up that instrument you learned how to play as a kid. The year I stopped playing the piano was 2016. The era of reality stars — ...

When the Cool Banana Wig band invites kids on stage to join them in playing a song, their instrument could be a coconut stick, a mustard bottle shaker, or possibly a papier-mâché bagel filled with ...

They're the ones keeping classical cool. Liz Cass, executive director of the nonprofit Armstrong Community Music School in Austin, Texas, says social media has made a huge difference, lifting the ...