Music has always been humanity’s most universal language — but not every instrument plays by the rules. From a glass contraption that reportedly drove players to madness, to a harp powered entirely by ...

Stacy Tenenbaum’s film Pipe Dreams features four young organ players competing in the prestigious Canadian International Organ Competition, held every few years in Montreal. What’s striking is that ...

Duck herders in Java have been using a traditional large bamboo object called a kowangan to protect themselves against the rain. The kowangan can be worn as a hat or be placed on the ground as a ...

Styles, tastes, and tactics are ever-changing things in the music industry. Thank goodness that they are, as exploration and experimentation are what make music so innovative. Well, these days, that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Billionaires, they are (not) just like us, as depicted in AMC's buzzworthy dark comedy The Audacity. Much of the fun in watching ...

Since the first of our ancestors discovered that banging a stick on a hollow log makes a jolly sound, we hominids have been finding new and unusual ways to make music. We haven’t come close to tapping ...

It may be hard to imagine, but at one time, instruments like oscilloscopes and voltmeters were unique, built as individual devices to help prove basic electrical concepts. Today, these instruments are ...

Haymes calls himself a “utility infielder” in Ramblin Jug Stompers, responsible for many of the unusual sounds that don’t come from the typical stringed instruments in acoustic bands. At the band’s ...

Based on a True Story composer Sherri Chung brought a typewriter to the orchestra to perform her score during Deadline’s Sound & Screen live-music event. The typewriter was just one of the unusual ...