Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for cool, widely learned or otherwise interesting musical instruments. However, we’ll be omitting instruments that are the only one of ...

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 ...

The word “symphony” is ultimately from Greek “symphonia,” concord of sounds, harmony, a meld of “syn-,” together (as in synchronize, synthesis) and “phōnẽ,” sound (as in phonetics, telephone). The ...

The Symphony for a Broken Orchestra installation of broken instruments at Temple Contemporary (courtesy Robert Blackson) The School District of Philadelphia has over 1,000 broken musical instruments, ...