(YouTube link) Andy Cavatorta was commissione...  ...Andy Cavatorta was commissioned to build a new musical instrument based on a pendulum for Bjork's Biophilia show in...  ...Biophilia show in Manchester, UK. The first such instrument built was the Gravity Ring, but that was scrapped...

If you're like most Americans, you probably pictur...  ...p or the inbred boy from Deliverance. How can one instrument conjure up images both so sweet and so repugnant?...  ...nd-response patterns to liven up the crowd. Their instruments -strings and animal skins tacked across hollowed-...  ...in America, slaves...

(YouTube link)We once told you about Athanasius Ki...  ...u about Athanasius Kircher's cat piano, a concept instrument composed of a group of cats that one "played" by...  ...ow. "Sound sculptor" Henry Dagg made just such an instrument , using toy cats in place of live cats. This perfo...

This picture explains how Venn diagrams work better than most explanations, without any words at all. Link -via The Daily What...

(YouTube link) Steffest made a musical instrument

I'm a sucker for a good horn music, but even I was...  ...dense, wraparound nest of scavenged and invented instruments whose crowning glory is a clump of old-fashioned...  ...lty songs of Foulkes’ first idol, the 1940s musical satirist Spike Jones. [YouTube Clip]Link: The Ma...

Listen to French artist Thomas Bloch demonstrating a glass harmonica, or armonica, at the Paris Music Museum. From Wikipedia: Benjamin Franklin invented a radically new arrangement of the glasses in 1761 after seeing wa...

This one is fantastic: take a look at this very co...  ...y cool computer graphic animation of self-playing musical instruments , titled Resonant Chamber by Animusic. Link [embe...