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 ...

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What was your first musical instrument? A recorder? A cheap guitar? The family piano? Well, what if it was a simple piece of paper? That's the promise of a prototype kit from Italian startup MusicInk.

Gary Cook is professor emeritus at the School of Music, having taught percussion at the UA for the past 32 years. In addition to starting the steel band program 20 years ago, he founded and directed ...