For example, they could re-create the sound of brass instruments played with their valves held down only part of the way, which is a technique jazz musicians use to get a particular sound.

Learn about the four main sections of an orchestra and what they sound like in the KS2 music guide from BBC Bitesize.

Hear the Musical Sounds of an 18,000-Year-Old Giant Conch The shell was played for the first time in millennia after being rediscovered in the collections of a French museum ...

Researchers captured sound fields around musical triangles. They wanted to understand the physical properties of the triangle instrument, test assumptions about the contribution of the triangle ...

Although a whole band playing together may make a song what it is, sometimes it's interesting to know what an individual instrument within a band sounds like on its own. Thanks to a new system ...

The invention of color music (and the instruments that perform it) is rooted in the similar way humans experience sound and light, two entirely unrelated phenomena that behave in similar ways ...