Recreating the forms and sounds of historical musical instruments

What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In ...
Insider Monkey

11 Unusual Musical Instruments With Weird Names

We all know the names of common musical instruments, but this list of 11 unusual musical instruments with weird names will show you that there are some out there you’ve never seen or heard about. As ...
Princeton University

‘Musical Instruments, Sound, Perception and Creativity’

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...
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Musical instruments that nearly disappeared from history

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...
The Conversation

You are living inside a massive, musical instrument – and here’s what it sounds like

Martin Archer does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
The Conversation

The story behind the ‘Moko’ drums, sacred musical instruments from the Alor‑Pantar archipelago

Francesco Perono Cacciafoco received funding from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU): Research Development Fund (RDF) Grant, "Place Names and Cultural Identity: Toponyms and Their Diachronic ...