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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When judged by its size, our vocal system fails to impress as a musical instrument. How then can singers produce all those remarkable sounds? The human vocal system would not receive much acclaim if ...

For musicians who want to create more than one type of sound on a single instrument, the electronic keyboard has been the standard for many decades. Thanks to the MIDI protocol originally developed in ...

A Brahms concerto being played on a Stradivarius violin can be a priceless experience, but is the wooden box with the strings stretched over it in and of itself a good investment? Historically, ...

There’s little doubt that learning to play a musical instrument is great for developing brains. Science has shown that when children learn to play music, their brains begin to hear and process sounds ...

Researchers captured sound fields around musical triangles. They wanted to understand the physical properties of the triangle instrument, test assumptions about the contribution of the triangle shape, ...

Inviting inventors from across the globe to showcase imaginative and unconventional instruments, Guthman has previously featured entries from Teenage Engineering and ROLI When you purchase through ...