Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. How does a grand piano make such a beautiful sound? Piano technician Ara Vartoukian explains by pulling ...

Playing string swapsies on instruments, to find out how it sounds. Ever wondered what would happen if you replaced an essential part of a perfectly fine instrument with something from another? Just ...

A few years ago Gibson began introducing some clever new technology to a select few guitars which automatically tuned the instrument and kept it there (seen most recently in the gorgeous Firebird X).

The sound of a piano called "pawn" is created by hitting a string by a part called a hammer. Its principle has been inherited without any change since the early piano was born in the 18th century, but ...

You’ve heard of violin strings snapping mid-performance. Now, get ready to watch a grand piano string fly off its pin, like an over-exerted elastic band. The video below, seen over 100,000 times on ...

[Richard] recently rediscovered some files from a hack he did back in 2004. He was experimenting with exciting piano strings via electromagnetic fields. The idea shares some elements with the self ...

Every musician has a particular set of tasks and warm-ups before a performance or practice session—oiling the valves, rosining the bow, tuning, long tones, scales, stretches. For Kelly Moran, a ...

The piano is a bit of an oddball within the string instrument family. Apart from rarely seeing people carry one around on the bus or use its case to discretely conceal a Tommy Gun, the way the strings ...