CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

They’ve got the beet. A touring orchestra using instruments entirely of vegetables just earned itself a world record. The Vegetable Orchestra, which only plays instruments that are carved out of ...

The standard configuration of the symphony orchestra has remained mostly unchanged for the past century. But innovative artists continue to design new instruments to create sounds never before heard.

This performance is part of the Weis Center's year-long Trees Series. Hailed by the international press as "a shamanic orchestra for a technological age", the Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and ...

BOSTON - At most concerts, it's a traditional band or a singer that's the big draw. For the Boston Typewriter Orchestra, it's the typewriters. They use old-style typewriters to give them their ...

Learn about the brass family of instruments — their sounds, mouthpieces and harmonics. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, hosts this exploration of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. There are lots of different sorts of music and plenty of instruments to play it on. In this clip, watch ...

As part of Classic FM’s 30th birthday celebrations, we have published a new interactive book, The Very Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra – the perfect introduction to orchestral music for the ...

Few contest that a centuries-old violin will be more coveted than its newer counterparts, assuming it was well-made to begin with. That’s how luthiers like Stradivari and Guarneri have become ...