A percussion instrument, the pakhawaj has a mellow tone. It’s used as an accompaniment with different forms of music and dance performances. Flickr Padayani Thappu is a frame drum with wooden ...

Mbira is a musical instrument traditionally from Zimbabwe in Africa. It's sometimes called a thumb piano. Mbira is made from a wooden block, about the size of an adult hand. On top of the wood are ...

A Short Ride In A Fast Machine by John Adams GREG FOOT: This piece of music it's called "A Short Ride In A Fast Machine." "Fran what does it make you think of?" FRAN SCOTT: It makes me think that ...

But these challenges add to the fun building it – I think the effort and energy I put into the instruments gives them character and this is felt by the players. All wooden parts are precisely ...

Stewart, who heads the music program at Carleton University ... led to a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration to create a wooden instrument the world has never seen before: the Fron, named after ...