Ever stumbled across a sound that made you stop in your tracks? Maybe it was something ancient and unfamiliar, yet strangely captivating. While guitars and pianos dominate stages worldwide, there’s a ...

An instrument crafter in Turkish metropolis Istanbul has revived nearly 800 musical instruments that were about to be forgotten over nearly last three decades. Feridun Obul, a primary school graduate, ...

KARACHI: Pakistan has a history of making documentary films that have won international awards for their unique subject and treatment. Director Jawad Sharif’s upcoming documentary Indus Blues — The ...

What did Palaeolithic pop sound like? Ask the team recreating long-forgotten instruments and the soundscapes they were played in BONE flutes are the oldest musical instruments discovered so far. The ...

COLUMBUS (WCMH) — A community-wide drive called the Gift of Music is helping to provide musical instruments to central Ohio students who may not have or be able to afford one. “Getting instruments in ...

When a recording of forgotten music on a forgotten instrument appears on the prestigious ECM label, chances are good that something ear-opening has been exhumed from the graveyard of history. On his ...

Navy veteran Michael Bryant has spent decades restoring forgotten instruments, but as he retires, his rare skills fade, leaving fewer experts to keep old player pianos alive in town. Molly Gilbert ...