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Were Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen the Mozart and Beethoven of 20th-Century Folk Rock?

How a comparison between the styles of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen leads right back to Mozart and Beethoven.

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

Pick Your Price: Save on Piano Lessons for Beginners Bundle

Raise your hand if you went to piano lessons after school. For most of us, those lessons were boring, rigid, and ineffective. While you can’t get back all those hours spent futilely fiddling …

Why You Can Never Tune a Piano

Grab a cup of coffee, put on your thinking cap, and start working through this newly-released video from Minute Physics, which explains why guitars, violins and other instruments can be tuned to a tee. But when it comes to pianos, it's an entirely differently story, a mathematical impossibility.

Stop Forcing Your Kids to Learn a Musical Instrument

Our daughter Rebekah, who is in second grade, takes three after-school classes every week. On Monday there is violin; on Wednesday, Hebrew; and on Thursday, ballet. One of these classes connects her to a religious tradition going back three thousand years. Two of them are pretty well pointless.I don’t mean that as a bad thing. Pointlessness rules, as far as I am concerned. Lots of great activities...

5 Reasons to Learn a Musical Instrument

Benefits of music education and reasons why you should learn to play a musical instrument.

To Take Up a Musical Instrument, First Pick Up Your Phone

Apps can help you learn to play piano, guitar and other instruments through videos, interactive graphics and real-time feedback on your progress.

21 Benefits of Learning a Musical Instrument

The benefits of learning a musical instrument are numerous. They range from improved social interaction skills and increased empathy to refined time, money and people management skills.

Why You Might Want to Enroll Your Kids in Piano Lessons

Long-Term Benefits of Music Lessons

A new study reports that older adults who took lessons at a young age can process the sounds of speech faster than those who did not.

3 Things Parents Must Tell Their Children When They Begin a Musical Instrument

“You are allowed to fail, and you will become better because of your failures.” There are no red pen marks for missed notes in music the way there are on tests — there is nothing to feel bad about when you play something “wrong” in music. To become skilled at a musical instrument — and to become great at anything — one needs to struggle a little. In your child’s case, they need to sound bad before they sound good; they need to…

15 Awesome Musical Instruments You Can Make at Home [Videos]

Thinking about buying a new instrument? Well, before you decide that, you should consider making your own! In this article, music teacher Willy M. will show you how to make 15 fantastic homemade mu…

Pull My Tail: Musical Instruments that Sound Like Cats

A piano that pulls cats' tails? Read about five musical instruments that somehow involve cats. Presenting the cat piano, the saron, the shamisen, the singing saw and the sistrum.

Can a Musical Instrument Affect Teeth?

Dr. Brent Ingram discusses how musical instruments can sometimes affect the alignment of teeth, and how a dentist can help assess each individual's case.

Remarkable images show how learning an instrument boosts brain power

Researchers from the Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez in Mexico City looked at how the brain changes in children after they had been given musical training.

Best Musical Instruments for Children

So, your child wants to play an instrument? The pros outweigh the cons, now all you need to do is choose an instrument, find a teacher and take some music lessons. Simple. We've got it all sorted out for you, including some of the best online music lessons for children.

This is your brain on a musical instrument

Using high-tech sensors, researchers have found that learning to play a musical instrument produces such profound changes in children's brains that kids are actually able to hear and process sounds they