News Violinist forced to hold priceless instrument when airline rejected standard violin case at airport  Ellsworth Toohey

music Photographer captures the stunning interiors of rare musical instruments Jennifer Sandlin

lego Lego xylophone made entirely with bricks–and works beautifully Jennifer Sandlin

Japan A fascinating look at the Nambu-tekki cast iron process Thom Dunn

Entertainment Famous movie prop "accident": 1870s Martin Guitar destroyed during filming of "The Hateful Eight" Mark Frauenfelder

music This new drum machine only makes sick medieval beats Thom Dunn

Musical instruments The original Beatles recording console is on sale for $3 million Thom Dunn

Musical instruments The Karen Speaker Manager guitar pedal will give you a new tone to speak to the manager with Thom Dunn

Musical instruments Omnichord, the wonderfully simple synth-harp of the 1980s, is reborn Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

music Fender's new Tom Delonge Strat is out of this world, in more ways than one Thom Dunn

video games This incredible guitar FX pedal lets you sample audio from Street Fighter Thom Dunn

makers How to turn a thrift store cassette player into a gnarly guitar distortion box Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

music Listen to this blistering version of Secret Agent Man, played by Luna Lee on the gayageum Jennifer Sandlin

music Archaeologists find 2,000-year-old musical instrument David Pescovitz

music SYNTH GEMS 1 is a gorgeous coffee table book full of analog synthesizers Thom Dunn

music This cool new synthesizer lets you play the keys in three dimensions for more expansive sounds Thom Dunn

robots Listen to some robots do a decent Nirvana cover Thom Dunn

music How I learned to love the hurdy-gurdy Grant St. Clair

music Folktek's weird, beautiful, droning custom electronic instruments Rob Beschizza

Musical instruments Thomas Dolby explains the synthesizer to children Gareth Branwyn