Last week, host Andrea Seabrook asked listeners to send in home recordings and photographs of their oddest musical instrument. The responses were eclectic, and some were indeed strange. Here is a ...

Brass instruments are always in orchestras. French horns, trumpets, trombones, euphoniums, tubas. It’s hard to miss what they ...

The music isn’t just in him — it is him. What is Disney’s Coco about? The animated film tells the story of the only family in Mexico who doesn’t like music. Well, except for the main character Miguel, ...

Pianos use little hammers striking taut strings to make tones. The Mellotron used lots of individual tape mechanisms. Meanwhile, the Trans-Harmonium from [Emily Francisco] uses an altogether more ...

Diego Stocco forged a niche for himself in the music world by creating sounds using custom-made instruments and unusual sources. His sonic palette includes sounds culled from sources as simple as sand ...

“Werid Al” Yankovic may not unsure about whether or not he’ll be releasing many more parody songs in his career, but his catalog has enough of them to last a lifetime. On the latest episode of The ...

Nov. 8 (UPI) --"Weird Al" Yankovic is the latest artist to perform with classroom instruments on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. The 63-year-old parody singer and musician joined host Jimmy ...