The day was still alive when a group of Abui people danced in a circle around the "maasang"—the central altar of their village—alternating coordinated movements with rhythmic pauses. The drums were ...

A video of a new musical instrument created by a student has attracted over one million hits on the internet. The PhD student made the video to demonstrate the BeatBearing - his electronic musical ...

I didn't know how much I didn't know about drums. There are drums that talk, that can imitate speech. There are drums grouped in families for the purpose of talking to each other. Tapping a drum with ...

As a kid growing up in Michigan, Tom Stewart always had easy access to a set of drums. His father, Carl, had learned to play the skins at age 6 — when the Big Band style of music that would come to ...

His right leg was like five inches shorter than his left. This was the result of having bone tuberculosis in his hip when he was around 8-years-old. That didn’t stop North Alabama native Jim Corder ...

Reporting from Phoenix — Not long before Robert Ulrich stepped down from his long-held job as CEO of Target Stores upon reaching the company’s mandatory retirement age of 65, he was on a trip through ...

West African “talking drums” known as dùndún can accurately replicate speech with a remarkable level of detail, new research finds. The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Communication, ...