This is the second article in a series imploring STEM workers, students, and entrepreneurs to learn to create music. The first article explained why playing an instrument or producing music has many ...

It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. She taught me the piano by holding her hands over ...

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 ...

Learning a musical instrument as an adult can seem like an expensive proposition. There's the cost of the instrument, books and hiring a music teacher – it can all add up quickly. However, there are ...

Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker just announced a musical instrument called Orchid. It’s a nifty-looking chord machine with some modern bells and whistles. For the uninitiated, a chord machine is a device ...

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 ...

Most of us have probably wanted to learn a musical instrument at some point in our lives. Many studies show that playing musical instruments is beneficial to our bodies and our brains. Learning ...