A balalaika is a triangle-shaped string instrument with a fretted neck, hollow body and three strings. Two of them are tuned to the same note and the third is tuned a perfect fourth higher. "Children ...

When Benny Chong and Byron Yasui are inducted into the ‘Ukulele Hall of Fame during today’s International ‘Ukulele Festival ...

Susan Pascal performs with her quartet in the KNKX Studios in 2015. Seattle's preeminent jazz mallet player, Susan Pascal, had the unique experience of starting her musical journey on uncommon ...

Three schools in Tuscaloosa City Schools will receive more than $65,000 worth of musical instruments through the Morgan Wallen Foundation’s 2026 Tour Give Back Program following the artist’s recent ...

1971, New York. Recorded at two studios: A&R Studios and Mayfair Studios. "Ubiquity"—when his manager explained it as "the state of being everywhere," Ayers liked it immediately. He thought, "If ...

1961, Honolulu. Recorded inside Henry J. Kaiser’s Aluminum Dome—an aluminum dome standing outside the Hawaiian Village Hotel. Produced by Richard Vaughn. A man who left Martin Denny’s group created ...

Hellman’s is finally answering the question on everyone’s minds: Is mayonnaise an instrument? The question was infamously first posed about 25 years ago by the lovable starfish Patrick on “SpongeBob ...

In 2018, life sciences and analytical instrument makers kept up the momentum of the last few years: overall instrument sales for the 20 firms that C&EN tracks rose 6.2%. Although economic conditions ...

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“PLEASE don’t call it a vibraphone,” Red Norvo admonished me a while ago. “I play the vibra_harp_, a name coined by the Deagan Company, which invented the instrument in 1927 and still supplies me with ...