The creator of the new Magic Instruments guitar says it can play anything a real guitar can, but without having to learn the fingerings of a real guitar. Adam Balkin filed the following report. This ...

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Not everyone is blessed with musical talent. But that’s OK, because technology can make up for what we lack. I just tried out a digital guitar that made me feel like a virtuoso despite having no ...

Magic Instruments co-founder and CEO Brian Fan knows the pain of learning new instruments. A Juilliard-trained pianist before starting his own company, he spent years trying to learn the guitar, only ...

HAMBURG, Germany — At the end of Schubert’s great song cycle “Winterreise” stands the Leiermann, a tattered hurdy-gurdy player so repellent that even dogs only growl at him from a distance. And yet ...

It has come to my attention that several members of the news department are unfamiliar with the theremin. This must be corrected. From Wikipedia: The theremin is an early electronic musical instrument ...