What if there were a way to create accurate replicas of ancient and historical instruments that could be played and heard?In late 2024, senior MIT postdoc Benjamin Sabatini wrote MIT Professor Eran ...
High-pitched and twittering, the sounds of pre-Columbian whistling jars might fool listeners into thinking they’re in the presence of tiny, exotic birds. Equally strange are the muffled drones of the ...
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 ...
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When did flutes start being held sideways, and are there any that you play vertically instead? We dive into the history of classical music’s transverse instrument. In 2008, at Hohle Fels, a cave in ...
What's 300 years old, made of wood and easily outperforms most mutual funds? A Stradivarius violin. Or an antique guitar or mandolin, for that matter. A growing group of investors is viewing music—as ...