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 ...

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 ...

Remember when you could put another dime in the jukebox and rock around the clock to your favorite song? Believe it or not, those happy days aren’t over yet. Though the dime is now more like 50 cents ...

The world's largest music gear expo is set to open its doors next week, and Yamaha has popped up early with a groove machine called the Seqtrak that could have jumped straight out of Teenage ...

Inspired by the enormous marble music machines from the staggeringly talented [Wintergatan] and the marble run builds by [Daniel de Bruin], [Ivan Miranda] has been busy again building a largely 3D ...

Nowadays, listening to music in the home is as easy as flipping a switch or pushing a button. What: Display of music boxes from the collection of Brian Walter of Muscatine. Where and when: On display ...

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 ...

Episode 3 explores how affordable electronic instruments like the Roland TB-303 and TR-606 empowered Detroit’s Black youth to invent techno. It highlights the role of experimentation, Afrofuturism, ...