It took a couple years to figure out all the things that had to come together just right to craft a new trombone for Michael Davis. He was working with the S.E. Shires Company, a small ...

Coding your own musical instruments just got a lot more convenient. Music tech company Electrosmith has launched the Daisy, an open source microcomputer packed with everything you need to code your ...

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 ...

In 1914 Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs published a taxonomy of musical instruments based on how an instrument’s sound is produced. Those that make a sound when a stretched membrane is ...

Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...

While most of us associate the Yamaha name with motorcycles, it actually first started with music. Torakusu Yamaha built his first reed organ in 1887, launching a company that became Japan's top piano ...