In April 1945, Madame Roos wrote a letter to French authorities describing her piano she was hoping to get back. Roos, who was 72, was Jewish and her piano had been stolen when Nazis emptied her ...

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 ...

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On Hillhouse Ave., in a rectangular Richardsonian Romanesque reddish-brown building, lies a gold mine of almost 1,000 musical instruments from a wide-set of cultures and ages. This building is the ...

Arielle Lewis from Education Through Music introduces a variety of musical instruments. Arielle Lewis from Education Through Music children to musical instruments including the guitar, violin, piano.

Update: The CITES convention officially adopted the musical instruments exemption on Wednesday. An international endangered species convention meeting in Geneva is close to exempting musical ...

The Central Branch of Brooklyn Public Library appears to be like any other — with fluorescent yellow lights, linoleum tile floors, and a nostalgic fragrance of dusty books. On a Friday afternoon in ...

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 ...