"The musical instruments of East and Southeast Asia enjoy increasing recognition as parts of humanity's intangible cultural heritage. Helen Rees edits a collection that offers vibrant new ways to link ...

Vientiane’s Patuxay Monument hosted a celebration as Asean capital governors unveiled a symbol representing Asean musical instruments. The event held here recently included a tree-planting ...

Hsain Wain. Hsain Wain refers to an ensemble of instruments which include the pa’ wain, ci wain, maun hsain, hneh, pa’ ma, sa khun, hcau’loun pa’, si toh, ling win, and si wah.In the hsain wain, the ...

Myanmar/Burmese musicians’ use of foreign instruments in the last 150 years has enchanted the ear of many newcomers to the music of lowland Myanmar/Burma. Foreign listeners recognize familiar timbres ...

Jaron Lanier, a computer scientist by profession, writes about music, learning to play a variety of instruments, and what it’s taught him about life.

Once thought to be the earliest musical instruments, bone artifacts called “Neanderthal flutes” were actually the work of scavenging hyenas, a new study says. Discovered in caves in southeast ...