When Rene Jenkins blows into his digeridoo, all senses are trained on him. Sounding a deep and resonant timbre, he moves through a group with the silent agility of a wild cat, producing a cadence as ...

Ever heard or heard of a salpinx, barbiton, aulos, or syrinx? Well, neither has anyone else, for centuries (at least heard them). Until now. Credit: Luca Petrella These ancient instruments were common ...

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 ...

When summer cleaning projects uncover an old, abandoned tuba gathering dust in the attic or a dented trumpet taking up space in the basement, they can be brought back to musical life by donating them ...

Although a whole band playing together may make a song what it is, sometimes it's interesting to know what an individual instrument within a band sounds like on its own. Thanks to a new system ...