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Recreating the forms and sounds of historical musical instruments

What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In late 2024, senior MIT postdoc Benjamin Sabatini wrote MIT Professor Eran ...
Wired

These Musical Instruments of the Future Sound Weird, Wacky—and Are Easy for Anyone to Play

A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.
NPR

A music director goes public with a secret stash of private instruments

Crisp, warm, responsive. The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is on a journey to meet these benchmarks under the baton of music director Gianandrea Noseda. One of the ways in which he's shaping a new ...
GIGAZINE

I took a look around the online museum 'Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments,' which features only imaginary instruments such as 'a piano that makes sounds with cat meows ...

The 'Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments' is an online museum created by music history and music technology researcher Deirdre Roughridge and musicologist Thomas Pateson to collect and classify ...
Hackaday

A 100-Year-Old Electronic Musical Instrument Brought Back To Life

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 ...