Playing string swapsies on instruments, to find out how it sounds. Ever wondered what would happen if you replaced an essential part of a perfectly fine instrument with something from another? Just ...

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It’s every guitar player’s nightmare: you step onstage, strike your rock-god pose, triumphantly strum the first chord of a song–and discover that your guitar is out of tune. A new line of instruments ...

This article was published 30/07/2018 (2615 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. On a warm day when I was out for a walk in my Fort Garry neighborhood, I heard the plinking sounds ...

He didn’t play piano, but 15-year-old Joey Aikens had an ear for perfect pitch. When a family friend gave him a small console piano, he could hear it was out of tune. A hands-on kid who took his ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LONGMONT, Colo.—The piano is a relatively new instrument—it appeared around the dawn of the 18th century—and to a large degree this is due to its ...