Crafting traditional wooden moktak percussion instruments requires boiling raw timber to prevent insect damage, shaping octagonal blocks, and hollowing interior cavities. Artisans carve handles, tune ...

The iconic sound of an orchestra tuning is highly recognizable, even for those who've never set foot in a concert hall. Many of us first heard it while watching a Looney Tunes cartoon. Have you ever ...

A novel process for analyzing and visualizing sound has been designed by the Laboratoire Sciences et Technologies de la Musique et du Son (CNRS/IRCAM/French Ministry of Culture and Communication/UPMC) ...

Three full-time music technicians and 10 student employees go to great lengths to keep the IC School of Music’s vast collection of musical instruments in play. From his not-quite subterranean piano ...

Soundiron has announced the Hopkin Instrumentarium, which they describe as an inspiring and distinctive series of bespoke, hand-made instruments for Kontakt 6 Player. The first release is Tines & ...

This post was published published on April 30, 2018 and may be out of date. Pocketables has been around for over 20 years, so there's a lot of content out there. At seven or more years since ...

The Crow Hill Company has brought what they describe as a beautiful set of tuned gongs to its free VAULTS... Virtual Instrument collection as ...TUNED GONGS. They say that this effectively enables ...

Two years ago, scientists revealed that, when plucked like a guitar string, spider silk transmits vibrations across a wide range of frequencies, carrying information about prey, mates and even the ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. What is a percussion instrument? Well, in the simplest terms it's something ...