The Galpin Society Journal is published annually, and contains articles, reviews, correspondence and notes and queries on all aspects of musical instruments, in support of the aim of the Society - the ...

When Rene Jenkins blows into his digeridoo, all senses are trained on him. Sounding a deep and resonant timbre, he moves through a group with the silent agility of a wild cat, producing a cadence as ...

The Cathedral has stood tall in the center of Cremona since the 12th century, but the heartbeat of this city is heard in the ...

Most of us have held a seashell to our ear at some point, listening for the soft rush that sounds like the ocean. In Neolithic Catalonia, those same kinds of giant shells were shaped into instruments ...

Ever heard or heard of a salpinx, barbiton, aulos, or syrinx? Well, neither has anyone else, for centuries (at least heard them). Until now. Credit: Luca Petrella These ancient instruments were common ...

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 ...

Music has been part and parcel of humanity for a long time. Not every sound is musical, but sound has meaning and sometimes the meaning of sound is specific to its context. But when it comes to ...

Are helicopters sound producing instruments? The Centre on Wednesday laid the debate to rest stating that helicopters cant be categorised as sound producing instruments.However, the Union Ministry of ...

"The present edition is reproduced from the 1908 Shanghai publication ([in] Vol. 39 of the Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic society). However the items contained in the 1908 ...

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 ...