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 ...

Almost anything can be a musical instrument. A horse’s jawbone? A couple of rocks, a stick, and some string? An armadillo shell? A box with a constantly buzzing antenna sticking out of it? Something ...

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 ...

No historical evidence exists to tell us who sang the first song, or made the first rhythmic sounds that resembled music.