Kawika Pangelinan has become a skilled and self-taught craftsman of numerous types of Hawaiian musical instruments.
The study of popular music heritage and cultural identity explores how communities anchor themselves to a collective past while simultaneously negotiating modernity. Popular music heritage embodies ...
A news report from China.org.cn on the Jing ethnic group: The Jing ethnic group: Single-stringed instrument offers tones of unique ocean cul ...
Archaeologists were perplexed by a strange pair of discs found in Oman – only to discover these items were actually a single 4,000-year-old instrument. The cymbals date to the third millennium B.C.
Editor’s Note: This article is a review and includes subjective opinions, thoughts and critiques. Mysterious fog, exotic percussion instruments and a really large bass amp greeted audiences during a ...
Jared Katz is preparing for this month’s ‘Art in Tune’ when certain items in the museum’s extensive instrument collection can be both seen and heard For Boston Museum of Fine Arts curator of musical ...
Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...