Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and the passage of time. While some vanished completely, others survived by the ...

John Packer Musical Instruments has acquired Richard Smith Musical Instruments of Sheriff Hutton, including the globally recognised Smith-Watkins brass brand.

One of the most famous Queens residents of any century was William Steinway, the German-born piano maker who made his namesake piano one of the most famous musical instruments of all time. In the ...

Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...