The University’s music program has its share of world-class pianists and virtuoso violinists, but there are plenty of faculty and students exploring instruments and sounds with less exposure. While ...

What’s the strangest musical instrument? How about the sackbut, the glass armonica, the theremin, the ondes martenot, or the Telharmonium, Trautonium, or Badgermin? What’s the strangest musical ...

This rare instrument, called a daxophone, sounds eerily similar to a human voice when played. There's something haunting ...

Haymes calls himself a “utility infielder” in Ramblin Jug Stompers, responsible for many of the unusual sounds that don’t come from the typical stringed instruments in acoustic bands. At the band’s ...

Music has a funny way of surprising us. Sometimes it's not the guitar solo or the vocal runs that stick with you. You know the ones. The tracks where you pause and think, what is that? That little ...