Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

Hallmark senior artist Matt Kesler places handlebars atop a pair of French horns, in preparation for the final stage of a piece he calls “The French Peddler.” The work goes up for auction July 12 at ...

Will Mosheim, 35, began playing music when he was 10 and plays the guitar, bass, fiddle and banjo as a musician-for-hire in a number of groups. The banjo is his latest instrument - he began playing it ...

Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...

Its hard to keep your hands — and your feet — off the instruments in the new interactive areas at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad. But that's the point, to bring out everyone’s inner musician ...

Dr. Demento would be so proud. Redmond’s Old Fire House (OFH) Teen Center, long famous for its all-ages rock concerts, now features a Weird Instrument Club, dedicated to adventurous music-making. The ...

Children can learn about Native American cultural history while making a musical craft at a Poway event on Saturday, March 1. Docents will guide children ages 5 to 10 years old in making rattles, ...