Start your family band by crafting some awesome homemade instruments. Most of these are super easy to make, and kids will have a blast banging on a tin can drum, shaking DIY maracas, and making ...

Use this fun craft activity to learn about this fun Chinese instrument! The Chinese Rattle Drum (also called the hand drum) originated in China during the Song Dynasty and became a popular ...

This is the eighth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

I grew up in San Jose, where there were sizable Chinese and Taiwanese populations, and as kids, many of us took piano lessons or learned how to play other Western instruments. But I didn’t know ...

This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

After being enrolled at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing as a sheng student in 1990, Wu and his classmates formed Lunhui, a rock band that played Chinese instruments and the guitar.