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See the human body morph into musical instruments from around the world at a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A new exhibition that opened this week at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art puts 4,000 years of human music-making ...

Albany musician Eddy Jay turns to 3D printer for new supply of musical instruments

After a music career that's taken him around the world, Eddy Jay has turned to cutting-edge manufacturing to make his own ...
Wired

These Musical Instruments of the Future Sound Weird, Wacky—and Are Easy for Anyone to Play

A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.
The Patriot Ledger

Music to band program's ears: How schools get $65,000 in new instruments. Kids ecstatic

The nonprofit Music Drives Us donated new musical instruments, valued at over $65,000, to Quincy's middle school band program. The donation will supplement the district's aging instrument stock and ...
Fast Company

This futuristic new musical instrument’s branding is inspired by Victorian-era design

A new music startup created an instrument that can turn your microwave, electric toothbrush, and baby monitor into hauntingly beautiful music. Its branding converts all of those fascinating outputs ...
The New York Times

Why People Sound Like Instruments, and Instruments Look Like People

“Musical Bodies,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, revels in the blurry boundaries between humans and instruments. By Joshua Barone Visuals by Ye Fan Clap your hands. Tap a foot.
Gizmodo

Check Out 10 Weird and Wonderful Finalists for the ‘Pulitzer of the New Instrument World’

Music nerds and lovers of fascinating inventions, rejoice! The 10 finalists in Georgia Tech’s annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition were announced recently, and they’re just as weird and ...