From UFO sounds to Celtic drones, sitar twangs to Tex-Mex accordion, country music occasionally loved to get a little weird. Fiddles and steel guitars may define the genre’s twang, but every so often, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Music nerds and lovers of fascinating inventions, rejoice! The 10 finalists in Georgia Tech’s annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition were announced recently, and they’re just as weird and ...

On this week's Rhythm Planet we check out the hang, the UFO Swiss take on the steel drum.

Popular kids' songs and themes on a huge variety of fun and weird musical instruments, and the results are hilarious, surprising, and sometimes oddly beautiful! From quirky percussion to strange ...

A wild exploration of creativity, sound, and fun, showing that even the strangest instruments can be entertaining and musically expressive. I bought some of the strangest musical instruments I could ...