A percussion instrument, the pakhawaj has a mellow tone. It’s used as an accompaniment with different forms of music and dance performances. Flickr Padayani Thappu is a frame drum with wooden ...

A Short Ride In A Fast Machine by John Adams GREG FOOT: This piece of music it's called "A Short Ride In A Fast Machine." "Fran what does it make you think of?" FRAN SCOTT: It makes me think that ...

Mbira is a musical instrument traditionally from Zimbabwe in Africa. It's sometimes called a thumb piano. Mbira is made from a wooden block, about the size of an adult hand. On top of the wood are ...

Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi's cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab, the national musical instrument of his homeland, took shape under his deft hands. Sakhi has ...