Kawika Pangelinan has become a skilled and self-taught craftsman of numerous types of Hawaiian musical instruments.

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 ...

High-pitched and twittering, the sounds of pre-Columbian whistling jars might fool listeners into thinking they’re in the presence of tiny, exotic birds. Equally strange are the muffled drones of the ...

The study of dynamics and modal analysis in musical instruments has advanced significantly over recent years, bridging the gap between traditional craftsmanship and modern engineering. By ...