Humans played the very first instruments thousands of years ago — 42,000 or 43,000 years ago, to be as exact as possible. The oldest known instruments are flutes carved from bird bone and mammoth ...

In case you've totally overlooked your "fun holiday calendar," this month, International Strange Music Day is upon us — a day dedicated to highlighting all sorts of weird sounds from obscure ...

Myanmar/Burmese musicians’ use of foreign instruments in the last 150 years has enchanted the ear of many newcomers to the music of lowland Myanmar/Burma. Foreign listeners recognize familiar timbres ...

HE WAS standing there alone playing guitar in front of a wall assembled from metal cages with chained drums, percussion and other music-making instruments. There were also two guitars in a wooden box ...

new video loaded: The Strange Instruments of the Met Opera The Metropolitan Opera’s performance of Thomas Adès’s “The Exterminating Angel” features highly unusual instruments, from tiny violins to ...

A musical duet can be killer—but it rarely looks (or sounds) so strange. Matt West’s experimental “Collaborative Instruments” require a duo—but it instead of alternating, they’re required to control ...

BRIGHTON — Unique and peculiar musical instruments can spark a conversation — and one Brighton business owner hopes they’ll do that and maybe a little more. Third Stone Music owner Scott Quick enjoys ...

Buke and Gase sounds like it might be another randomly decided label for a Brooklyn indie rock group seeking to break through the thin layer of DIY musicians dusting the borough, but like the band it ...