CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

The Symphony for a Broken Orchestra installation of broken instruments at Temple Contemporary (courtesy Robert Blackson) The School District of Philadelphia has over 1,000 broken musical instruments, ...

They’ve got the beet. A touring orchestra using instruments entirely of vegetables just earned itself a world record. The Vegetable Orchestra, which only plays instruments that are carved out of ...

A suspected crook struck a sour note after stealing instruments worth tens of thousands of dollars. The man accused of orchestrating the crime stole from South Florida’s youth, and despite an arrest, ...

SPOKANE, Wash. --- Good news for families with students planning to join band or orchestra in the fall. The Spokane Public Schools board is expected to approve a bid price for the purchase of new ...

If you were scouting through the internet to find what are the 6 hardest instruments to play for kids in an orchestra, we are going to ease your research with our list. Music has a huge impact on the ...

When Gianandrea Noseda conducts an orchestra, he wants the instruments to "imitate vocal voices … even if they are absent”. He calls this an "Italian style" of playing and in his seasons at the U.S.

Members of the French orchestra wore rain covers as they played at the Trocadero, but their instruments were exposed to the elements. “That poor piano in the torrential rain,” the classical music ...

German-based music software-maker, Ableton, has released four new sampled instrument collections for its Ableton Live digital audio workstation. The collections represent the four areas of an ...

Before the timpani became an orchestral instrument, during the Civil War, people used to play on the horseback. This type of drum has a skin which is called head and it is stretched on a large bowl ...