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Recreating the forms and sounds of historical musical instruments

What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In late 2024, senior MIT postdoc Benjamin Sabatini wrote MIT Professor Eran ...
Princeton University

‘Musical Instruments, Sound, Perception and Creativity’

Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...
ZDNet

Researchers bring the sounds of ancient instruments back to life

Ever heard or heard of a salpinx, barbiton, aulos, or syrinx? Well, neither has anyone else, for centuries (at least heard them). Until now. Credit: Luca Petrella These ancient instruments were common ...
NPR

A music director goes public with a secret stash of private instruments

Crisp, warm, responsive. The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is on a journey to meet these benchmarks under the baton of music director Gianandrea Noseda. One of the ways in which he's shaping a new ...
The Conversation

You are living inside a massive, musical instrument – and here’s what it sounds like

The ancients believed that the Earth was surrounded by celestial spheres, which produced divine music when they moved. We lived, so to speak, in a huge musical instrument. This may sound silly but ...
GIGAZINE

I took a look around the online museum 'Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments,' which features only imaginary instruments such as 'a piano that makes sounds with cat meows ...

The 'Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments' is an online museum created by music history and music technology researcher Deirdre Roughridge and musicologist Thomas Pateson to collect and classify ...