Nowadays, they are used in modern styles of music, such as beatboxing, dance music and for meditation. The shakuhachi is a wind instrument from Japan. A traditional shakuhachi is made from bamboo ...

Laurence Carden's upcoming event in London, The Organ Collaborations Project, aims to liberate and reimagine the organ in modern folk music.

History Aside from the human voice, flutes are the earliest recorded musical instruments. Most modern concert flutes are made of silver, but this wasn't always the case: instruments dating back around ...

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Rhodes Music, at the forefront of heritage and innovation, announces the MIDI MK8, a powerful MIDI system for its acclaimed ...

tango and many types of folk music. History The double bass is generally regarded as a modern descendant of the string family of instruments that originated in Europe in the 15th century, and as such ...