Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

The 38 violins, some worn and all silent, displayed at the University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery brought tears to my eyes this week. It's not the instruments themselves — though some are ...

Even if you're not familiar with the musical instrument called the theremin, chances are you've heard its ghostly sound. It's featured in "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin, as well as some of the ...

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The roar of a T. rex, made iconic by Jurassic Park, has become the soundtrack of prehistory. In reality, no one — not even paleontologists — can say for certain what dinosaurs sounded like, though ...