Birds don't really need humans to teach them how to be musical. If anything, it's the other way around, as birdsong has inspired human musicality over the years. But there is one aspect of musical ...

Big Jon Atkinson is putting his blues where his harp is. This Southern boy, a recent San Diego transplant, is getting together with a few of his friends to throw a blues party on Saturday, January 10, ...

SPRINGDALE — Emily Carpenter can’t recall exactly what it was that led her to ask her mother for a harp one Christmas several years ago. “I honestly don’t remember,” said Emily, a ninth-grader at ...

Gillian King ’22 and Joshua Lin ’22 experienced something rare at Bowdoin. The two graduating seniors—who both grew up in suburbs outside of Chicago—were able to share a passion many of the rest of us ...

If you want to learn to play the harmonica, you have an opportunity at the museum workshop on Thursday, July 20, from 5:30- 7 p.m.

Unlike the traditional kouxian performing style, Ma usually hits the jaw harp faster, which results in a louder reverberation of sounds produced by mouth. In 2022, Ma received a master award, during ...

Kouxian, or ancient jaw harp, is the earliest string instrument that has been found in China. By placing kouxian between the lips and tapping it with the fingers, the instrument can produce sounds, ...