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.

Archaeologists in Dahwa, Oman, found two strange discs that turned out to be a rare 4,000-year-old musical instrument, ...

Wood is a common material in many Chinese musical instruments, but relatively few are classified as wooden under the system that assigns instruments to one of eight categories, the bayin.

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 ...

Matthew Sweet looks at unusual instruments used in film scores, such as the Cristal Baschet which Daniel Blumberg used in his recent award-winning score for the Brutalist. Show more Matthew Sweet ...

For the aficionado, these documents offer a little extra insight into the DNA of each unique musical instrument. Choir and Organ senior producer, Chris Taylor, in the studio Every organ is unique.