WITH THESE UNIQUE INSTRUMENTS. AND OF COURSE, IT’S MADE MASS. THE SOUND THAT COMES OUT OF THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE. IT’S CRAZY. FOR THE UNINITIATED, THE SOUND COMING FROM THIS CIGAR BOX IS MIND BLOWING.

Duck herders in Java have been using a traditional large bamboo object called a kowangan to protect themselves against the rain. The kowangan can be worn as a hat or be placed on the ground as a ...

It may be hard to imagine, but at one time, instruments like oscilloscopes and voltmeters were unique, built as individual devices to help prove basic electrical concepts. Today, these instruments are ...

Students are learning music in a well-rounded way by playing unusual instruments at the Tampa Music School. From tissue box ukuleles, to egg-shaker maracas and overturned buckets as drums, students ...

A French horn made from a garden hose and a funnel is one of the few unusual instruments appearing in Yuba College’s Tuesday Noon Recital. This particular recital consisting of musical “oddities” is ...

Chances are, you’ve never heard four marimbas in harmony live before. Or at all. Here’s your opportunity when the Heartland Marimba Quartet performs at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24 at Imago in Elgin, hosted by ...

Since the first of our ancestors discovered that banging a stick on a hollow log makes a jolly sound, we hominids have been finding new and unusual ways to make music. We haven’t come close to tapping ...

Bleeding Cool: As far as the horror genre goes, are there any particular instruments that work better to experiment on and refine? I don't have it on me, but I had this instrument called an Azzam bell ...

Movies set in the past often rely on music to tell us just where we are. Most, but not all, of the composers of this year’s period pieces felt the obligation to reflect time and place. For Ridley ...

How does one describe the notes that come from a ruler that is anchored on one end and then plucked? The best word we can come up with is “wubulation”. So would that make this ruler-plucking ...