English indie rocker Daniel Blumberg scored Brady Corbet’s epic “The Brutalist” with less than a dozen musicians, recording ...

Musical instruments are meant for making beautiful melodies, right? Well, not when crafty people decide against it. Through ...

Myanmar/Burmese musicians’ use of foreign instruments in the last 150 years has enchanted the ear of many newcomers to the music of lowland Myanmar/Burma. Foreign listeners recognize familiar timbres ...

What is as fascinating as their strange appearances is that both percussion instruments are played only once during a ...

Musical innovation and uniqueness is what tends to set great artists apart from their contemporaries. Especially when it comes to the use of creative, unorthodox, or perhaps odd, instruments.

Bitch, devil’s fiddle, some traditional Polish folk instruments may have brow-raising names, but all of them have a unique and fascinating sound which lends Polish folk its inimitable cachet. Ligawka ...