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 ...

Not everything has been invented, far from it. There are many inventions that are, for the time being, only fiction, and which will see the light of day after years and decades of research. In some ...

The Telharmonium was revealed to the world in the early 1900s. This extremely heavy (as in, around 210 tons) organ-like instrument utilized electromagnetic generators, which rotated to produce pulses ...

In the early years of electrification, when electricity was beginning to shape the modern world, this new technology was being put to use in many more places than turning motors and providing lighting ...

Next time you eat a mushroom risotto, just know those fungi were making music before sliding down your gullet. It turns out mushrooms have an electromagnetic field that makes music, and you can hear ...

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

HAMAMATSU, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yamaha Corporation (TOKYO:7951)(hereinafter “Yamaha”) is pleased to announce that our legal action against Medeli Electronics Co., Ltd (得理電子有限公司, hereinafter “Medeli ...

ASHEVILLE - The manufacturer of a world-famous electronic musical instrument that started in Asheville is changing locations to the Citizen Times building downtown. Synthesizer maker Moog Music has ...

Music nerds and lovers of fascinating inventions, rejoice! The 10 finalists in Georgia Tech’s annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition were announced recently, and they’re just as weird and ...

Memphis audiences this week will have two opportunities to hear and see Kate Tayler Hunt and her theremin in action.

You’ve been to raves, festivals, scrolled through TikTok, listened to a high-energy playlist; you’ve already heard EDM. You probably just don’t know you have, because you don’t know what it is. What ...

Mountain melodies, centuries-old instruments and traditional rhythms are being digitally preserved through a new open-access music platform. The archive aims to reconnect contemporary creators with ...