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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Smithsonian Magazine

How to Hear the Met’s Historic Instruments’ Singular Sounds

Recordings are available via Soundcloud and the Google Arts & Culture platform The Metropolitan Museum of Art Have you ever been struck by the irony of exhibiting musical instruments — renowned for ...
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 ...