Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Your brain might age better if you play a musical instrument or sing in a choir, research has found. Engaging in and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Listening to your favorite songs can easily boost your mood, but that's not the only benefit associated with enjoying music.

Every violin is a little bit different. Details such as the spacing for player's fingers to the angle the bridge is cut vary from luthier to luthier, time period to time period, and so forth. So when ...

Most musicians spend years mastering a single instrument. Then there are those rare talents who look at one instrument and think, ‘Sure, but what about five more?’ These multi-instrumentalists aren’t ...

Jerry Stemach lived out a quiet dream Sunday afternoon when he played the cello for the first time inside Rohnert Park’s Weill Hall at the Green Music Center. “I grew up playing the saxophone but deep ...

Band teacher Alex McMahon said the instrument was adjusted to better fit Stanley’s needs, starting with the mouthpiece.

Shania Twain reflected on her first time picking up a musical instrument — and how it affected her — in her 2011 memoir From This Moment On. She was in kindergarten, and her world changed almost in an ...