There are three families of musical instruments - string, wind and percussion. When a string is plucked on an instrument such as a guitar, the vibration is passed into the air and you hear a sound.

From American-made Martin acoustic guitars in Pennsylvania to handcrafted ceremonial gongs in Thailand, we traveled the world to uncover the stories behind how different musical instruments are made.

According to the BBC, Prince is credited with playing every single instrument on the album—27 in total.

Endangered musical instruments like Rashan Chowki ... priest and poet Jyotirishwar Thakur, 24 different types of Veena are ...

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

U Khin Zaw, a pioneering and lively writer on Myanmar/Burmese music described seeing ... Tone, resonance, timbre, capacities and limitations of western instruments are quite different from Burmese ...

There are three families of musical instruments ... Students could rotate around the groups to explore all the different types of instrument and how they make sound through vibrations… ...