Magic Instruments co-founder and CEO Brian Fan knows the pain of learning new instruments. A Juilliard-trained pianist before starting his own company, he spent years trying to learn the guitar, only ...

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Both the violin and the guitar were folk instruments long before they were adopted into the classical realm. In an extraordinary performance at the Hothouse Friday night, violinist Nadja ...

It has come to my attention that several members of the news department are unfamiliar with the theremin. This must be corrected. From Wikipedia: The theremin is an early electronic musical instrument ...

Last week, Lizzo set the internet on fire after she played a 200-year-old crystal flute that once belonged to President James Madison at her Washington, D.C. concert. Fans were delighted by the ...

I gave up trying to play the guitar when I was 12 years old. This was approximately two weeks after I started learning it. Truth be told, I never quite got to the “playing” stage of things; I realized ...

The words of Miles Davis ring as true on the streets of New York as they do in Maputo, Mozambique. And one thing both places have in common is a love of jazz. But the music coming out of the southeast ...