A number of instruments played by famous folk artists, along with those of less-known and unknown artists, are housed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. National Museum of ...

The Museum's music collections contain more than 5,000 instruments of American and European heritage. These include a quartet of 18th-century Stradivari stringed instruments, Tito Puente's autographed ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

In a program titled “American Snapshots” — prepared ... a tidiness which never impacted the earthy feel of the music — and the instruments themselves contributed to the quartet’s ...

It could set the record for the most expensive musical instrument ever sold under the hammer if it tops the $15,875,800 paid for the “Lady Blunt” Stradivarius violin in London in 2011, according to ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...