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Tut’ankhamūn’s trumpets
On this day 100 years ago, a British excavation team exploring Egypt’s Valley of the Kings discovered a step that proved to be the beginning of a descending staircase. Thus began the opening of the...
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Beiaard- en klokkencultuur in de Lage Landen/Carillon and bell culture in the...
In 2022 the Amsterdam University Press launched Beiaard- en klokkencultuur in de Lage Landen/Carillon and bell culture in the Low Countries, a bilingual annual journal that publishes editorial...
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Poe’s concertina
Joseph Holbrooke’s The bells, op. 50(a), a “dramatic poem” scored for large orchestra and chorus and inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s poem by the same name, is highly onomatopoeic and describes the...
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Five illustrated bagpipes in “Musical instruments and their homes”: An...
Cassandre Balosso-BardinAssociate Professor, University of LincolnSenior Fellow, Metropolitan Museum of Art In 1888 Mary Elizabeth Brown sent out copies of her new catalogue, Musical instruments and...
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Forging Aztecness
Today a growing number of Mexican-American musicians in the United States perform on Indigenous Mesoamerican instruments and archaeological replicas in what is widely referred to as Aztec music. For...
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Doktor Eisenbarth’s musical clock
The medieval German town Hann. Münden was home to Johann Andreas Eisenbarth (1663–1727), a colorful figure who became a subject of folklore to the extent that fact and fiction are now difficult to...
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A pyrophone for St. Anne’s
The Chapel of St. Anne (above), an 11th-century romanesque church on an isolated hill in the hamlet of Krobitz in southeastern Thuringia, stood unvisited for many decades, except for outdoor...
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Mbiras as sensors
The frequencies of pitches produced by a musical instrument are determined by the physical properties of the instrument. Consequently, by measuring the frequency of a pitch, one can infer information...
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The burning of musical instruments in Afghanistan
Sometime during the last weekend of July 2023, previously confiscated musical instruments were collected and publicly burned in the Afghan province of Herāt. The head of the local office of the...
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Central America’s vast dance and musical heritage
The music of Central America tends to borrow heavily from the music of Mexico to the north, Colombia to the south, and the Caribbean Islands to the east, and, in the case of Nicaragua, from the...
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