The Hammond organ was a bit of an unsung hero among 20th-century rock songs, including these three legendary tracks.
A research team has used CT scanning, vibration measurement, and 3D printing to produce playable replicas of ancient musical ...
A new Met Opera production of “Tristan und Isolde” uses Wagner’s rare wooden horn, the holztrompete, for a key offstage ...
If you have a trained ear-or just a strong sense of music and tone-it's easy to hear the difference between a cheap instrument and a well-made model built to resonate across the world's greatest ...
Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think about it. A strip of brass and a few keys gave birth to jazz. A solid block ...
An unprecedented effort to reverse the effects of a racially biased medical test that blocked or delayed Black people from getting kidney transplants seems to be working. Researchers reported Monday ...
Mission: The music center, a program of the Symphony Women’s Association, offers weekly music instruction, with loaner instruments/music to underserved and at-risk children at no cost. Wish list: ...
The graduation of a threatened species off the federal endangered list is often a cause for celebration. Some environmentalists are squawking, however, because the iconic wood stork will soon lose its ...
A pair of naturalists spent weeks in the wilds of South Florida in the 1930s, braving alligators and snakes to find and photograph wetland and wading birds like the gangly wood stork. Unlike many of ...