Music is a great creative outlet for kids — as well as an easy way to keep them occupied — but you don’t have to buy expensive instruments to encourage your little Mozart to make music. From kids’ ...

If you’re looking to unleash your creativity, or just trying to find an idea for your kid’s school project, take a look at our list of the 10 easiest musical instruments to make at home. Whether you ...

[Josh] wrote in to tell us about an experimental instrument he’s been working on for a couple of months. We’re glad he did, because it’s a really cool project. It’s an organ that uses the principle of ...

In describing his diddley bows, doshpuluurs, and canjos, craftsman Scott Weir said no two instruments ever make the same sound. They’re all a little quirky, just like him. Weir began creating these ...

Every day brings some wild new music venture, like dancing robots you control with your voice or an algorithm that turns songs into meatballs (seriously). In that light, the music of Pawel Romanczuk, ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called UChicago Class Visits, spotlighting transformative classroom experiences and unique learning opportunities offered at UChicago. If you want to measure ...

Make a unique homemade instrument by following Wayne Erbsen’s homemade mandolin (or “hamdolin”) instructions using a ham can and inexpensive building materials. Before I explain the particulars on how ...

Roque Baños breaks down how he made a house of horrors sing. By Aaron Couch In Don’t Breathe, a house is more than a home — it’s a musical instrument. “We started to have this crazy idea, ‘Why don’t ...

Music can come from surprising places—even zoo animal enclosures. One group of (human) performers is proving that you don’t even need conventional instruments to make melodies. The Vienna Vegetable ...

Sandwiched between a video of a skydiving Chevy Sonic and a Chevy Sonic doing a kick flip, Super Bowl viewers might have noticed the band OK Go driving a mini van around as they smacked the hell out ...

If you know how to hum, you can play kazoo. It is one of the simplest musical instruments to play and the method we are going to show you here will make it one of the most easiest musical instruments ...