Archaeologists were perplexed by a strange pair of discs found in Oman – only to discover these items were actually a single 4,000-year-old instrument. The cymbals date to the third millennium B.C.

Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. But ...

Well before the spoken word, early humans were singing, making the human voice the first musical instrument. Before language had evolved, it is speculated that the human voice was used to recreate the ...

Once a week, every week at primary school, we would gather cross-legged on the classroom floor in a circle, wielding a recorder. The ear-splitting sound of Three Blind Mice (or something akin to it) ...

In the early years of electrification, when electricity was beginning to shape the modern world, this new technology was being put to use in many more places than turning motors and providing lighting ...