"It's the most aggravating, frustrating, embarrassing, annoying, lovable instrument I've ever played," — Tyler Lembcke, member of the Chattanooga Pipe Band, about the bagpipes. When the weather's nice ...

Kevin Konetzka, left, and Mike Kutsko, right, with Southern Indiana Pipes and Drums, play the bagpipes during a memorial service to honor fallen police officers across the United States at Public ...

Adam Sliwinski may be a classically trained musician, but he enjoys breaking from tradition. Part of the Brooklyn-based ensemble So Percussion, he prefers to make his own instruments rather than play ...

WHEN A SIDE DOOR WAS OPENED LAST WEEK TO ILLUMINATE HISTORIC ST. LUKE’S CHURCH WITH AUTUMN SUNSHINE, THE GOLD-COLORED KEYS OF AN ORGAN GLEAMED, KEYS THAT HAVEN’T CAUSED A SOUND TO BE PRODUCED IN THREE ...

Some people build fighting robots or 3D-printed widgets for Make Magazine's inventor expo known as Maker Faire. This guy brought a self-playing pipe organ. The organ, as he explains, is a highly ...

There are all sorts of fun ways to make music with empty jugs and other things that resonate with a popping sound when poked with a finger. Should you ever get stuck on that proverbial desert island, ...

Hockey players are known for being tough, but Bill Parsley, 85, is as tough as they come."I got a detached bicep in each arm, I've had both hips replaced, and I had two surgeries on each shoulder," ...