Southern California Marimba puts on salons where you can hear the couch-sized instrument in all its glory.

The marimba has an interesting history in which, oddly enough, Pennsylvania plays a major role. It is one of the oldest of musical instruments. There are records that the marimba existed in a much ...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — The steelpan, a percussion instrument created in Trinidad and Tobago in 1939, is making a comeback as a new generation embraces its bright, melodious sound on stage and ...

Move over, Ringo Starr and Lars Ulrich. The guys in the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet are here to show that classical percussionists can make some wild noise, too. Their third album, “Beyond,” ...

The instrument's keys are made of porcelain tiles that have been tuned to the pentatonic scale, with each key's pitch determined by the distance between the two rubber supports on which they sit. The ...

What is a percussion instrument? A percussion instrument is any musical instrument that’s played by being struck or scraped – that could be by a beater like a drum stick, by the player’s hand, or by ...

The instrument sat dusty and out of tune in the corner of a storage room. Its resonators were cracked, its bars unable to hold notes, and the layer of pig tripe fitted on the clay rings no longer ...

Mahindra Percussion Festival 2026, organised in assication with The Hindu, returns to Bengaluru with strong beats and diverse ...