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Archaeologists Say These Conch Shells May Have Been Used as Early Musical Instruments 6,000 Years Ago
New research suggests that a collection of conch shells unearthed in Spain may have once produced melodies, in addition to ...
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Conch shells may be 6,000-year-old instruments, researchers say
Archaeologists working in northeastern Spain say a cache of conch shells was not just decorative debris from ancient ...
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has just reopened its musical instrument galleries after a two-year renovation project. The new permanent installation includes more than 5,000 instruments and ...
Almost anything can be a musical instrument. A horse’s jawbone? A couple of rocks, a stick, and some string? An armadillo shell? A box with a constantly buzzing antenna sticking out of it? Something ...
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The sheet music collector: Playing pieces from the early 20th century preserved by Indigenous people
Bolivian director Raquel Maldonado Villafuerte has rescued up to 7,000 pages of handwritten scores in the Amazonian village of San Ignacio de Moxos ...
The Museum's music collections contain more than 5,000 instruments of American and European heritage. These include a quartet of 18th-century Stradivari stringed instruments, Tito Puente's autographed ...
During the holiday season, it’s not unusual to be serenaded by Yale’s many choirs and a cappella ensembles caroling around campus. But this past December, only in Yale’s Center for Engineering ...
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 ...
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