Whether it’s to provide relaxation or to develop coordination or motor skills, playing musical instruments is a great activity for children. Kids who have autism might find the skill beneficial, as ...

Then pick up a guitar, start tickling a piano’s ivories or join a band. Playing an instrument can promote a youthful pattern of brain activity, researchers reported July 15 in the journal PLOS Biology ...

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The Mighty Music Makers create musical instruments using everyday objects. Saxophonist and TV presenter YolanDa Brown goes to a school and helps children create a Big Box Bass using a broom handle, ...

Learning a musical instrument as an adult can seem like an expensive proposition. There's the cost of the instrument, books and hiring a music teacher – it can all add up quickly. However, there are ...

Archaeologists were perplexed by a strange pair of discs found in Oman – only to discover these items were actually a single 4,000-year-old instrument. The cymbals date to the third millennium B.C.