Last week, host Andrea Seabrook asked listeners to send in home recordings and photographs of their oddest musical instrument. The responses were eclectic, and some were indeed strange. Here is a ...

Spoons and found objects Haymes isn’t alone in the Capital Region when it comes to finding unusual instruments to play. Joseph Pasko, a longtime player of the spoons, ukulele, accordion, bass and ...

Musical innovation and uniqueness is what tends to set great artists apart from their contemporaries. Especially when it comes to the use of creative, unorthodox, or perhaps odd, instruments. Or ...

A French horn made from a garden hose and a funnel is one of the few unusual instruments appearing in Yuba College’s Tuesday Noon Recital. This particular recital consisting of musical “oddities” is ...

Jazz is strange enough for some listeners. Dig a little deeper and it gets ever so bizarre. Some musicians take instruments from other traditions... What The Heck Is That? Odd Instruments In Jazz What ...

More than 40 years ago Richard Waters was living in California, and he started tinkering with different materials. Waters was on a mission to invent a musical instrument that made a curious sound. He ...