Jazz is strange enough for some listeners. Dig a little deeper and it gets ever so bizarre. Throughout the music's history, particular instruments have risen to challenge of playing improvised music.

The door to room 5 at the University of Washington School of Music is solid wood, nothing to distinguish it from other classrooms. But inside this cramped space is a collection of unusual instruments, ...

Last week, host Andrea Seabrook asked listeners to send in home recordings and photographs of their oddest musical instrument. The responses were eclectic, and some were indeed strange. Here is a ...

The score for Oscar Bettison’s chamber concerto “Livre des Sauvages” (“The Book of Savages”) should come with an IKEA-like warning: Some Assembly Required. The half-hour work, which will be given its ...

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. Or ...

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This Orlando debut for Klimchak was the kickoff of his first solo tour of Florida. For it, he came packing an arsenal of instruments ranging from familiar to modified to foreign, on down to normally ...

BETTY WATERS/STAFF THE “GITCHO” is the name Doyle Campbell gave the instrument he displays here that is a cross between a guitar and a banjo, which he made from a turnip green can and pieces of cedar.

NEW YORK — At this summer’s classical music concerts, you could of course find a healthy array of violins, trumpets and cellos. But amid the familiar strings and brass have sprouted some odd ...

ODD is the brainchild of Olaf Diegel, and the last time Gizmag caught up with the Kiwi Professor of Mechtronics he had just unveiled a pair of beautifully intricate 3D-printed guitar bodies attached ...

Jazz is strange enough for some listeners. Dig a little deeper and it gets ever so bizarre. Some musicians take instruments from other traditions... What The Heck Is That? Odd Instruments In Jazz What ...