A glass armonica, originally invented by Benjamin Franklin and revived at a recent performance at the Park Avenue Armory (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) In 1761, Benjamin Franklin invented an ...

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

Starting tonight, a group of experimental musicians in B.C. will give a series of performances using instruments and objects made solely from glass. The project sees three musicians from Victoria's ...

SOLVING a crossword puzzle one day some 30 years ago, a young Austrian violinist couple named Christa and Gerald Schönfeldinger came across a reference to an instrument they had never heard of, ...

TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Ancient Japanese musical instruments have taken on a new shine after one group decided to make theirs out of glass, instead of traditional wood. Drums and flutes play a major ...

AS A CHILD, Jamey Turner took piano lessons. He also studied violin. But over dinner with his family, he discovered a different instrument – the wine glass. “When I heard my dad playing a stemmed ...

Filling drinking glasses with varying amounts of water and rubbing the rims to coax out musical tones is something anyone can do for fun in the kitchen. The members of Crystal Harmony are among the ...

A lively Lizzo performance called attention to historical instruments constructed out of crystal, but crystal isn’t the only odd material for making music. Made for Madison's second inauguration in ...

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