Musical innovation and uniqueness is what tends to set great artists apart from their contemporaries. Especially when it comes to the use of creative, unorthodox, or perhaps odd, instruments.

Now, can that be used to make music? Incredibly, the answer is yes, and in fact, an instrument with that system has existed since the last quarter of the 19th century: the pyrophone. Meanwhile, in ...

What is as fascinating as their strange appearances is that both percussion instruments are played only once during a traditional music performance: the zhu at the beginning and the yu at the end.

Bitch, devil’s fiddle, some traditional Polish folk instruments may have brow-raising names, but all of them have a unique and fascinating sound which lends Polish folk its inimitable cachet. Ligawka ...