Most of us have probably wanted to learn a musical instrument at some point in our lives. Many studies show that playing musical instruments is beneficial to our bodies and our brains. Learning ...

As parents grapple with making the right or best educational decisions for their children, the questions about learning a musical instrument will often come up. Not just one question, but many. Should ...

A belly turns into a drum, hands mold into percussion tools and a face adorns a brass bell in this anatomical art history show ...

Older adults who kept practising a musical instrument or learnt a new instrument even after 70 preserved memory better than ...

An intriguing new study shows positive cognitive effects for older people playing an instrument for the first time.

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 ...

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Rochester’s Jazz Street crowds got a boost with the 17th annual Musical Instrument Donation Drive, led by Rochester Education ...

Imagine if Louis Armstrong had never seen a cornet as a child. Or Picasso never had paint and brushes when he was young. What ...

India is a country rich in tradition and skill. Be it the ancient dance forms that entertain and inform people even today, to the forms of ‘nataks’ and ‘jatras’ that show society a mirror, Indian art ...

It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. She taught me the piano by holding her hands over ...

For many parents, enrolling their children in music lessons is more about helping them discover new hobbies. But many are ...