Join us as we count down our top ten most weird and wonderful instruments ... More recently, Hurdy-Gurdyists have proven that the instrument is suited brilliantly to heavy metal music too, bringing it ...

This is the ninth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

Myanmar/Burmese musicians’ use of foreign instruments in the last 150 years has enchanted the ear of many newcomers to the music of lowland Myanmar/Burma. Foreign listeners recognize familiar timbres ...

Bitch, devil’s fiddle, some traditional Polish folk instruments may have brow-raising names, but all of them have a unique and fascinating sound which lends Polish folk its inimitable cachet. Ligawka ...

Some instruments are so obscure that even if you have heard them, you likely haven’t heard of them. Expand your musical ...

Musical innovation and uniqueness is what tends to set great artists apart from their contemporaries. Especially when it comes to the use of creative, unorthodox, or perhaps odd, instruments.

What is as fascinating as their strange appearances is that both percussion instruments are played only once during a ...