In 1922 Joseph H. Kraus proposed a “smell organ.” A middle C would smell like a rose; bass notes like clove and vanilla.

Performances in N.Y.C. Modern pianos are central to classical music. But some musicians are learning other keyboard instruments, and feel like better artists for it. Phyllis Chen, a trained pianist, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Music has a decades-long history of embracing electronics. Whether we're talking about plugging a guitar into an amplifier or creating full ...

Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. From the stage to the studio, nothing really feels like ...

To most U. S. piano makers, business in recent years has been just one long C# minor adagio lamentoso. Sales, which were level at 320,000 units a year in the decade before 1925, dwindled to 25,000 in ...

While restructuring a collection of historical keyboard instruments at the ANU School of Music, I’ve been led to ponder the mysterious significance that pianos can have in the human psyche. Due to ...