Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think about it. A strip of brass and a few keys gave birth to jazz. A solid block ...

Move over, keytar, there's a new synth/guitar hybrid in town courtesy of BLL Instruments When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Elyra is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dave Smith, an electronics pioneer whose creations of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) and the Prophet 5 synthesizer ...

Consider the saxophone player's pandemic dilemma: How to play at home in a Japanese apartment, notorious for paper-thin walls, without making your neighbors want to kill you. In a pre-COVID-19 world, ...

Here's one out of left field. Turkish musician Gorkem Sen has invented a new kind of musical instrument that incorporates fretted strings, coiled springs and drum membranes to create a range of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Are you frustrated with the sheer weight of your hardware synthesizer? Of course not! But ...

I hate, hate, hate computers and phones/tablets on stage. To me, a Macbook sitting next to a keyboardist or percussionist is just asking for trouble. Computers freeze, apps crash and sometimes you ...

London-based duo Dentaku have made digital instruments out of beer bottles, text messages, and color-sensing robots. But, for their latest trick, Yuri Suzuki and Mark McKeague want to let you make ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Noon Instruments Re-amping synthesizers - playing recordings through an amplifier and ...