Five years ago, the Musical Instrument Museum opened on a dusty tract of land in north Phoenix. The elegantly designed building introduced a unique concept to Arizona: Visitors could see, hear and ...

WILLIAMSBURG - Buddy Parker activates the Nickelodeon, and the old gadget springs to life, filling the small room with the lovely sounds of piano and violin. The music is not pre-recorded or digitally ...

High-pitched and twittering, the sounds of pre-Columbian whistling jars might fool listeners into thinking they’re in the presence of tiny, exotic birds. Equally strange are the muffled drones of the ...

The first electric guitar played in public. The first Hawaiian-made ukulele. Eric Clapton’s 1956 Fender Stratocaster, “Brownie,” which helped create his signature sound on classic songs like “Layla” ...

The average person enjoys hearing the sound of an organ rather than wondering what it’s made of. The work of the late Jerome Markowitz made that music more rich than imagined. In fact, Markowitz ...

In April 1945, Madame Roos wrote a letter to French authorities describing her piano she was hoping to get back. Roos, who was 72, was Jewish and her piano had been stolen when Nazis emptied her ...

The St. Joseph’s Drum and Bugle Corps was a fixture in Batavia and Genesee County from the 1930s through the 1970s. Its history and impact in the community is highlighted in the Holland Land Office ...