Forget the image of a hand-bell choir as middle-aged church ladies donning white linen gloves, stiffly ringing a few small silver bells on Sunday morning. The Raleigh Ringers take bell ringing to a ...

Handbells have been around for centuries. Originally invented for church bell tower players to practice their songs, they took on a life of their own in handbell ensembles, where groups of musicians ...

In 1953, a colossal musical instrument called a carillon — made up of 47 bells and collectively weighing 12 tons — made a journey via ship from Holland, through the Panama Canal to Seattle and ...

Listener and musician Randy Granger of Las Cruces, N.M., plays the Hang, an odd-shaped instrument created in Switzerland in the late 1990s. It looks and sounds alien. Today's sound clip introduces us ...

Almost anything can be a musical instrument. A horse’s jawbone? A couple of rocks, a stick, and some string? An armadillo shell? A box with a constantly buzzing antenna sticking out of it? Something ...

Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker just announced a musical instrument called Orchid. It’s a nifty-looking chord machine with some modern bells and whistles. For the uninitiated, a chord machine is a device ...

This is the second article in a series imploring STEM workers, students, and entrepreneurs to learn to create music. The first article explained why playing an instrument or producing music has many ...