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 ...

A Stradivarius violin is one of the most prized instruments in classical music. The few musicians lucky enough to play an ...

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 ...

A research project to make digital instruments sound more realistic takes a hard left turn. When Gadi Sassoon met Michele Ducceschi backstage at a rock concert in Milan in 2016, the idea of making ...