A key composing skill is understanding the sounds that musical instruments make and how they can combine together to create a sound, that you want for your composition. A violin is the highest pitched ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

On The Map is where we highlight famous and not as well-known musical sites that you can visit. This month we check into a ...

Jesse Engel is playing an instrument that's somewhere between a clavichord and a Hammond organ---18th-century classical crossed with 20th-century rhythm and blues. Then he drags a marker across his ...