The MFA is home to roughly 1,460 musical instruments — and this curator is their caretaker
Jared Katz is preparing for this month’s "Art in Tune" when certain items in the museum’s extensive instrument collection can ...
Meet the instrument tuner keeping the traditions of tango music alive
Damián Guttlein is the only person in the world who can tune by ear the bandoneon, a unique instrument that powers the ...
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Dryden Ensemble Welcomes a New Era with Its February 16 Performance in Princeton
Reeds are giving way to strings at the Dryden Ensemble – at least in terms of its artistic director. Founder and former ...
Here's how you sculpt a medieval statue in the 21st century
At a cathedral in York, England, expert stonemasons are combining cutting-edge technology with ancient technique to bring ...
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He's the first Black American to compose a full opera. It's finally being staged after 138 years
Further complicating matters, many musical instruments have evolved since the 19th century. Violins, for instance, now use metal strings instead of ones made from animal gut, and some of the ...
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The Stone of Madness review - 18th century stealth 'em up with a devilish psychological twist
The Stone of Madness may be set in the 18th century, a full 350 years on from Umberto Eco's masterful monastic mystery The Name of the Rose, yet the game is clearly indebted to the literary ...
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The obscure 'quack' who helped pioneer the modern clinical trial
Francis Hauksbee the Younger, an 18th-century instrument maker and scientific lecturer, proposed a formal comparative study in 1743 to evaluate the "safety and efficacy" of his medication for ...
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Jazz club appeals for instruments to give to kids
Famed London jazz club Ronnie Scott's is appealing for unused or unwanted musical instruments. The Soho club will hold an instrument amnesty on Saturday, with all donated items being given to ...
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Melbourne Instruments' new desktop device could revolutionise studio software and hardware control
NAMM 2025: Melbourne Instruments has announced ROTO Control, a new controller that utilises the company's groundbreaking motorised fader technology - as found on its Delia and Nina synths - to create ...
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Timely Lessons From 18th-Century British Printmaking
Please check your inbox for an authentication link. A book about 18th-century printmaking — and that of the early 19th century, something not quite captured in the title — might not strike you ...
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New technology tracks millions of cells simultaneously during organ development
The team drew on a theory developed in the 18th century: the theory of optimal transport, which describes how objects can move most efficiently from one place to another to minimize time ...
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18th Australian Infantry Battalion
The 18th Battalion was raised at Liverpool in New South Wales in March 1915 as part of the 5th Brigade. It left Australia in early May, trained in Egypt from mid-June until mid-August, and on 22 ...