Have you ever wondered why the oboe begins the tuning? How is the starting note decided? With access to electronic tuning ...

Music by Brahms, Beethoven, Arvo Pärt and Robert Kahn are on the program, set for Thursday night at the Norton Museum.

Researcher Ashley Snow from the University of Washington sought to understand what effects the world's largest class of musical instrument has ... organ creates an auto-tune effect since its ...

at that time a new instrument. The trio includes a series of elaborate variations on a tune from an opera by the now-forgotten composer Joseph Weigl. Another work based on a previously existing ...