Archaeologists excavating ruins in Dahwa, Oman, found a “rare” 4,000-year-old pair of cymbals likely buried as a ritual offering. Photo from Antiquity While sifting through the ruins of an ancient ...

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The artifacts represent the earliest-known stringed instruments found in Southeast Asia. A reconstruction of the chordophone, crafted out of deer antler. Photo: Antiquity (2023). DOI: ...

The slides and bells from about a dozen trombones are stacked like cordwood in the wall sculpture “Seussaphone.” Tarnished parts of old cornets, trombones and other instruments are built onto an old ...

While sifting through the ruins of an ancient building in Oman, archaeologists unearthed a pair of green-blue discs. The finds turned out to be a 4,000-year-old musical instrument — offering a “rare ...

Do you have an old horn around that you don't really give a toot about anymore? That instrument may be just what is needed to help a Beaver Dam elementary school student develop a lifelong love of ...

Kawika Pangelinan has become a skilled and self-taught craftsman of numerous types of Hawaiian musical instruments.

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It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. She taught me the piano by holding her hands over ...