These Musical Instruments of the Future Sound Weird, Wacky—and Are Easy for Anyone to Play

A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Creating new sounds with instruments and technology

Bach never heard his harpsichord make sounds like this. Students in the History and Technology of Musical Instruments class taught by Matias Homar at Rochester Institute of Technology got the chance ...
Princeton University

‘Musical Instruments, Sound, Perception and Creativity’

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

Recreating the forms and sounds of historical musical instruments

What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In late 2024, senior MIT postdoc Benjamin Sabatini wrote MIT Professor Eran ...
The Hindu

Sangam-era musical instruments make a comeback through a sound engineer’s exhibit at Chennai’s Victoria Public Hall

Visitors walking into the restored Victoria Public Hall in Chennai do so with genuine curiosity, which often doubles when they enter the section carrying about 150 musical instruments, including the ...