Instruments
Easiest instruments: ten best instruments for easy learning
Our guide to the 10 easiest, most practical musical instruments to learn and play
Hardest instruments to learn: ten most challenging musical instruments
Our round up of the hardest instruments to play and learn - do you agreee?
What is a theremin?
It has been used in pop music, classical music and movies about alien landings, but what actually is a theremin and how is it played? Here is everything you need to know about the eerie, sci-fi-esque instrument
Easy Christmas ukulele songs
Our roundup of the easiest Christmas songs to play on the ukulele
What is the most expensive piano in the world?
A guide to the Casablanca piano - the most expensive piano ever sold at auction
10 most expensive instruments ever: the instruments that are worth mouth-watering sums of money
How much? Our round-up of the most expensive instruments ever
10 most famous stolen instruments
Our guide to the most famous stolen instruments in history
The cello: a comprehensive guide
The larger cousin of the violin and viola, but smaller than the double bass, the cello is a popular bowed stringed instrument, capable of great range and expression
What are stringed instruments? Meet the members of the string family
As their name suggests, stringed instruments use vibrated strings to produce sound – but how are these instruments played and what are the different types?
Harmonium history: tracing the evolution, rise and demise of the pump organ
Far from being dusty and dreary, harmoniums, or pump organs, were grand instruments that took their place at the heart of 19th-century French music, says Andrew Green
Weirdest instruments: ten of the strangest
Our guide to the 10 most weird and wonderful instruments
Wanamaker Organ: How the largest pipe organ in the world ended up in Macy’s Department Store, Philadelphia
In 1911 John Wanamaker decided what his famous department store needed was a pipe organ - and not just any pipe organ, he wanted the biggest in the world
10 most famous pianos
Our guide to the most famous pianos in the world
When was the organ invented?
Oliver Condy presents an overview of this most noble and awe-inspiring of instruments, the organ
What instruments did Queen Victoria play and own?
Andrew Green explores Queen Victoria's musical treasures
Britain's best music museums: our most famous musical instrument collections
Andrew Green takes us on a tour of some of the UK’s best musical instrument museums and collections
How has violin sound developed through the years?
Over the past 100 years, string playing style and technique has gone through significant changes; Ariane Todes reviews the current trends
Musical instruments for children: 10 of the best
Our guide to the best musical instruments for children
The English organ: how it evolved through history
Over the centuries, social upheavals and changing musical fashions have both ravaged and transformed the English organ. Daniel Moult tells its story
Musical toys for children: 10 of the best music toys for all ages
Our guide to the best musical toys for children of all ages
What are the different parts of the piano?
We explore the main parts of one of the world's most popular and enduring instruments, the piano
Paganini's violin: a guide to the great Italian violinist's treasured Il Cannone
When Niccolò Paganini died, his Guarneri was locked away with only a select few allowed to play it. Francesca Dego is the latest lucky one, discovers Julian Haylock
A guide to the trumpet: how to hold and play it and the best classical music for the trumpet
All you need to know about the trumpet, from how its played to the best trumpet classical music
10 medieval musical instruments
Our guide to some of the most important instruments of the medieval period