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We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Music has a decades-long history of embracing electronics. Whether we're talking about plugging a guitar into an amplifier or creating full ...

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 ...

Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think about it. A strip of brass and a few keys gave birth to jazz. A solid block ...

The first electric guitar played in public. The first Hawaiian-made ukulele. Eric Clapton’s 1956 Fender Stratocaster, “Brownie,” which helped create his signature sound on classic songs like “Layla” ...

Deputy Head of School, Lecturer in Piano, School of Music, Australian National University While restructuring a collection of historical keyboard instruments at the ANU School of Music, I’ve been led ...