The Djembe: From West African Villages to Global Stages The Djembe: From West African Villages to Global Stages (Image Credits: Flickr) The djembe drum dates back roughly between 400 and 800 years, ...

Five years ago, the Musical Instrument Museum opened on a dusty tract of land in north Phoenix. The elegantly designed building introduced a unique concept to Arizona: Visitors could see, hear and ...

WILLIAMSBURG - Buddy Parker activates the Nickelodeon, and the old gadget springs to life, filling the small room with the lovely sounds of piano and violin. The music is not pre-recorded or digitally ...

He is history’s most famous maker of musical instruments — the Rex Luthier, if you will, King of the Strings. He is Antonio Stradivari, and he represents the pinnacle of a violin crafting tradition ...

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 ...

The first electric guitar played in public. The first Hawaiian-made ukulele. Eric Clapton’s 1956 Fender Stratocaster, “Brownie,” which helped create his signature sound on classic songs like “Layla” ...

The St. Joseph’s Drum and Bugle Corps was a fixture in Batavia and Genesee County from the 1930s through the 1970s. Its history and impact in the community is highlighted in the Holland Land Office ...