Of course, the guitar and piano come to mind when you think of musical instruments, but those are only the most fundamental. In actuality, there are a plethora of rare musical instruments ...
A harp is the musical ... a violin. American musician Tom Lehrer once said, “Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.” A piano, therefore, is the instrument ...
The Museum of Musical Instruments collects and displays musical instruments of European art music from the 16th to the 21st century. The museum's collection includes about 3,300 instruments, many of ...
The San Francisco Symphony courts talent from far and wide — and occasionally from home. From 2006 to 2009, a young James Gaffigan spent three seasons as the orchestra’s associate conductor. Now 45, ...
At about 4,500 years old, these harps are the world's oldest stringed instruments ever discovered. Queen Puabi's lyre was made of wood ... the Mesopotamians had musical technology that was ...