Ever heard or heard of a salpinx, barbiton, aulos, or syrinx? Well, neither has anyone else, for centuries (at least heard them). Until now. Credit: Luca Petrella These ancient instruments were common ...

A Stradivarius violin is one of the most prized instruments in classical music. The few musicians lucky enough to play an ...

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ROME — When archaeologist Giovanni Carboni first came upon the oddly shaped ceramic object during an excavation in a Roman suburb in 2006, he was baffled. “I said — please don’t write this, though, ...

Few contest that a centuries-old violin will be more coveted than its newer counterparts, assuming it was well-made to begin with. That’s how luthiers like Stradivari and Guarneri have become ...

Along with Andrea Amati and Andrea Guarneri, Antonio Stradivari dominated the so-called Golden Age of Violins (roughly 1660 to 1750), and the instruments they crafted remain the gold standard today in ...

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 ...

The universe is alive with the sound of music. Humans will find music almost anywhere. We find it in the songs of birds or the long-distance communications of whales. We hear music in the chirping of ...

Dr. Alex Schweder at the 2024 Research Open House. Photo Courtesy of Pratt Communications and Marketing. Of the twenty-years that I have been investigating architecture through performance through ...