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

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Musical innovation and uniqueness is what tends to set great artists apart from their contemporaries. Especially when it comes to the use of creative, unorthodox, or perhaps odd, instruments. Or ...

Last week, host Andrea Seabrook asked listeners to send in home recordings and photographs of their oddest musical instrument. The responses were eclectic, and some were indeed strange. Here is a ...

I bought some of the weirdest musical instruments I could find on Amazon and put them all to the test. From strange designs to unexpected sound mechanisms, each instrument brings something completely ...

On this week's Rhythm Planet we check out the hang, the UFO Swiss take on the steel drum.

Movies set in the past often rely on music to tell us just where we are. Most, but not all, of the composers of this year’s period pieces felt the obligation to reflect time and place. For Ridley ...