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 ...

USA TODAY has announced the nominees for their 10Best Reader's Choice Awards in the museum category and a world-famous Phoenix museum has made the cut. The Musical Instrument Museum came in at No. 9 ...

In Skylight Theatre's latest show, Fiddler on the Roof, perhaps the most powerful piece of storytelling is truly instrumental. Two violins, played both on and off stage, survived the Holocaust. They ...

The average person enjoys hearing the sound of an organ rather than wondering what it’s made of. The work of the late Jerome Markowitz made that music more rich than imagined. In fact, Markowitz ...

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month this April with a look at five of the most exciting electric guitars at the National Museum of American History. Megan Salocks April is an important month for the ...

North Tonawanda is known to many as the home of the carousel. But a lesser known legacy of the Lumber City involves musical organs. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, North Tonawanda was a ...

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