“How come we’ve never heard of this beautiful instrument until now?” This was posted by a first-year college student to my world music course discussion board recently. He voiced what many of his ...

Origins -- Drums -- Flutes and recorders -- Reeds -- "Brass" instruments: trumpets and horns -- String instruments -- Pipe organs -- Electrophones https://siris ...

Music is an intrinsic expression of cultural diversity and a fundamental element of identity, ritual symbolism, and daily social interaction. The study of material culture, and musical instruments in ...