India is well known for its rich musical culture and repertoire, but the country's musical heritage extends far beyond sitars ...

A wild exploration of creativity, sound, and fun, showing that even the strangest instruments can be entertaining and musically expressive. I bought some of the strangest musical instruments I could ...

The finalists for Georgia Tech’s annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition just dropped.

Musical innovation and uniqueness is what tends to set great artists apart from their contemporaries. Especially when it comes to the use of creative, unorthodox, or perhaps odd, instruments. Or ...

I bought some of the weirdest musical instruments I could find on Amazon and put them all to the test. From strange designs ...

Last week, host Andrea Seabrook asked listeners to send in home recordings and photographs of their oddest musical instrument. The responses were eclectic, and some were indeed strange. Here is a ...

On this week's Rhythm Planet we check out the hang, the UFO Swiss take on the steel drum.

Pianos use little hammers striking taut strings to make tones. The Mellotron used lots of individual tape mechanisms. Meanwhile, the Trans-Harmonium from [Emily Francisco] uses an altogether more ...