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.

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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 ...

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This year’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition is happening Friday, March 13th and Saturday, March 14th at Georgia Tech’s ...

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 ...

What will the future of music sound like? Thanks to a one-of-a-kind competition, we're about to find out!

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 ...

Instruments that translate electronic music into physical actions and acoustic instruments that sound as space-age as any synthesizer are just some of the 20 semi-finalists in the 2015 Guthman Musical ...

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