Used woodwind and brass instruments were found ... Research has shown that playing a musical instrument can help nourish, cultivate, and increase intelligence in children, but playing a used ...

pipes and slabs of wood. In the end, it was worth unloading all those amazing instruments to document one of today's finest — and friendliest — percussion ensembles.

“We wound up using a wooden neck and gut strings ... We've never made a musical instrument from the stuff, but it would be fun to try." Until Dr. Schulson pulls a band together, Finse ...

Between them, father and son have made over 50 wooden stringed instruments. Both – Allen Hicks of Nicklesville, Va., and his son, Larry Hicks from Castlewood, Va. – said they got into making i ...

"Music for Wood and Strings" began with an idea from Bryce Dessner who not only conceived of the music but invented the instrument the music was played on. As So Percussion's Adam Sliwinski has ...

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But Stewart Pollens, former conservator of musical instruments at the Metropolitan ... mainly because when you inspect Stradivari’s wood today, you’ll find all manner of different densities ...

Mbira is a musical instrument traditionally from Zimbabwe in Africa. It's sometimes called a thumb piano. Mbira is made from a wooden block, about the size of an adult hand. On top of the wood are ...