The Djembe: From West African Villages to Global Stages The djembe drum dates back roughly between 400 and 800 years, created ...

Bach never heard his harpsichord make sounds like this. Students in the History and Technology of Musical Instruments class taught by Matias Homar at Rochester Institute of Technology got the chance ...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --"We wanted to create a new hand percussion instrument that would allow a musician to simulate various sounds associated with a drum set using his or her hands, ...