It's never too late to take up a new instrument. In fact, a new instrument can help keep the mind young and spry. Regardless of your age, here are some of the best musical instruments for Baby Boomers ...

Terry Green has had one job in life: music. For 32 years, Green has sold guitars and drum kits to fellow Greenville musicians at his store, Eastside Guitars and Drums. Green moved the store a year ago ...

The West African instrument dùndún is also known as “talking drum” because players can match the pitch and rhythm of speech patterns on it. A new study reveals just how closely dùndún players match ...

Haig Beylerian, a musician and UX consultant, is wearing a helmet as he approaches the drum machine, because there’s no telling what will happen when you tap a drone to make a beat. The ...

As a kid growing up in Michigan, Tom Stewart always had easy access to a set of drums. His father, Carl, had learned to play the skins at age 6 — when the Big Band style of music that would come to ...

Undoubtedly the most high profile hardware release of the year, the TR-1000 is Roland ’s new flagship drum machine, combining ...

Reporting from Phoenix — Not long before Robert Ulrich stepped down from his long-held job as CEO of Target Stores upon reaching the company’s mandatory retirement age of 65, he was on a trip through ...

Matt Brennan's Kick It: A Social History Of The Drum Kit is a complex, meticulously researched piece of work that spans several centuries. In the course of over three hundred pages, Brennan explores ...

We've all got hobbies. They're essential aspects of our lives which keep us mentally engaged and enthusiastic. Some folks like tinkering around in their garages and building things. Some folks like ...

Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...