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Drawing instruments have been essential to mathematics, architecture, surveying, navigation, engineering design, and other technical endeavors from antiquity through the 20th century, although ...

Fran Scott and Greg Foot explore the science of sound, music and musical instruments. Drawing inspiration from some great pieces of music, like Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Holst’s The Planets Suite ...

Musical instruments are the musician's soul. When a violin or an oud goes out of tune or a piano loses its luster, it can ...