While often viewed as instruments exclusively for children, xylophones are present in orchestras, film scores and even some pop and rock bands. The simplicity that makes them appeal to young people ...

The MIDI format has long been used to create some banging electronic music, so it’s refreshing to see how [John P. Miller] applied the standard in his decidedly analog self-playing robotic xylophone.

While music and design may not seem to go hand in hand at first glance, a giant mile-long xylophone certainly fits the bill for both. After all, it’s likely the only instrument on the planet that can ...

Japanese telecoms giant Docomo has created an enormous forest-based xylophone over which a wooden ball rolls to play a piece of music. Why? To promote the new Touch Wood SH-08C of course. The ...

POWELL — At Northwest College, a roughly 100-year-old musical instrument sits in Assistant Professor of Music Zach Paris’ office. He called the Deagan 200 Series Artist’s Special the Stradivarius of ...

Founded in 1954 by Hugh Tracey, ILAM is the largest repository of African music in the world. A research institution devoted to the study of music in Africa, it preserves thousands of historical ...

“I don’t think music is really separate from living,” the musician and composer Bex Burch tells me from her home in Berlin. We are discussing her new album, There is only love and fear, released later ...

The viral video of a cockatoo playing a xylophone was posted on Instagram. The videos showing amazing skills of pets are often absolutely incredible to watch. Be it a dog creating a beautiful painting ...