Sometimes a song calls for an instrument so out there that it has no choice but to work. Here are just a few songs that were elevated by their use of unexpected instruments, such as a bottle of soda ...

“Put your finger here,” says the mononymous Suzala, as she instructs Arlene Krassner, both with ukuleles at their chests. Suzala is tutoring Krassner in the B-minor seventh, or Bm7 chord, on the ...

A thoroughbred instrument solo on a hip-hop song can take it from satisfactory to superior with the quickness. Whether cooked up from scratch in the studio or crafted due to some production magic, the ...

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The sounds of a harp-like instrument called the yazh, named for the mythological animal Yali whose image was carved into its stem, once filled the halls of temples and royal courts in southern India.

The “Play It Loud” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art spotlights the star instruments that made music electronic, from Muddy Waters' blues axe to a shard of the psychedelic guitar that Jimi ...