Host Andrea Seabrook asks listeners to send in home recordings of their oddest musical instrument. Those recordings can be e-mailed to [email protected]. For this week's homework assignment, I ...

Nonprofit seeks to help those who lost instruments in January’s fires When January’s catastrophic wildfires swept through Southern California, Brandon Jay and his wife, both professional ...

Haymes calls himself a “utility infielder” in Ramblin Jug Stompers, responsible for many of the unusual sounds that don’t come from the typical stringed instruments in acoustic bands. At the band’s ...

GRAND HAVEN -- In his dream, the small, wooden, stringed box was floating in the air. It's face was decorated with a large, black, weeping heart. Will Sleutel awoke and began sketching the image from ...

Since the first of our ancestors discovered that banging a stick on a hollow log makes a jolly sound, we hominids have been finding new and unusual ways to make music. We haven’t come close to tapping ...

A treasure trove of unique musical instruments invented and built by pioneering composer Harry Partch between 1930 and 1972 were quietly returned to San Diego last week, ending a 33-year-long ...

More than 40 years ago Richard Waters was living in California, and he started tinkering with different materials. Waters was on a mission to invent a musical instrument that made a curious sound. He ...

As a parent with 5-year-old twins in Linn-Benton Community College’s cooperative preschool in Corvallis, Mark Miller is always on the lookout for good field trip opportunities. So when he learned ...

BUFFALO, NY (WKBW-TV) — The group of musical performers is known as Sari Raras Irama. According to the founder Matt Dunning it means "the melodic essence of time." Matt put together this unique band ...

To create a sense of community on the set of Ever After, Drew Barrymore gave out gifts to her castmates. And there was a sweet purpose behind each one. Her overall message was that they were like a ...