For the past 26 years, the Guthman Competition at Georgia Tech’s Department of Music has introduced the world to strange and innovative instruments. The contest welcomes inventors from all over the ...

NEVADA CITY, Mont. — A hundred-years-ago, music machines like player pianos and band organs were as much a part of American culture as our contemporary i Tunes. Many of those old machines are now in ...

Walter Mathis could play pretty much anything on the piano — as long as it was one particular piano. The grand piano in the Napoleon parlor of the late preservationist's home, which he dubbed Villa ...

In an era of iPods, Internet radio, DJs and high-tech sound systems, the venerable jukebox is still an object of fascination. It's hard not to grin when Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" crackles from ...

Back in 2019, Nashville-based smart instrument creators Artiphon launched a Kickstarter to fund the production of a portable music machine with a gaming controller vibe and sliced orange dimensions.

MARYSVILLE, Ohio (WCMH) – Music machines are huge cabinets that have musical instruments in them. You put in a nickel and a tune plays on a real paper reel. To say they are old-fashioned would be an ...

Back in 2016, we featured a stunning wooden machine that employed falling steel marbles to play a merry tune. As plans are drawn up for a new version, its builder has looked back to the designs of ...

In 1889, a San Francisco tavern called the Palais Royale debuted a hot new attraction: a modified Edison phonograph that, when a customer inserted a nickel, played music from a single wax cylinder.

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Tristan Shone, otherwise known as the one-man industrial act Author & Punisher, was on tour opening for prog-metal legends Tool in March 2020 when quarantine began. The final three shows were quickly ...