We all know the names of common musical instruments, but this list of 11 unusual musical instruments with weird names will show you that there are some out there you’ve never seen or heard about. As ...

South Western Railway is searching for the owner of a unique homemade hurdy-gurdy found in lost property after the unusual ...

Since the first of our ancestors discovered that banging a stick on a hollow log makes a jolly sound, we hominids have been finding new and unusual ways to make music. We haven’t come close to tapping ...

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 ...

Teenager Thomas Handley has an unusual hobby of making stringed musical instruments. It began when he decided to make a Saxon lyre, a six-stringed harp, for a school GCSE project. Thomas, 16, from ...

India’s rich cultural heritage has given us some of the most amazing yet unique musical instruments. It is often said that when words fail, music speaks and these instruments are proof of that. From ...

The artifacts represent the earliest-known stringed instruments found in Southeast Asia. A reconstruction of the chordophone, crafted out of deer antler. Photo: Antiquity (2023). DOI: ...