Wang says that she introduced the toys to China not only to improve sales, which would help support makers in Peru, but also ...

The khaen music of the Lao people is played with a mouth organ that resembles panpipes, but made with bamboo tubes of varying lengths. It is integral to Lao life and promotes family and social ...

A famous ceramic tableau known as the Tello plaque—showing several Nasca strolling while blowing their panpipes, surrounded by dancing dogs—has been viewed as an iconic snapshot of a peaceful ...

The sound of panpipes, flutes and snare drums fills the rehearsal space of the Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos. "The breathing techniques required to play these instruments for a few ...

Disc three continues in that jazz vein, with highlights including the big band energy of Footloose And Fancy Free, which ...

Blowing into panpipes or a horn makes the air inside the pipes vibrate. Bongos and other percussion instruments produce vibrations when you bang them. Students could explore how sound vibrations ...

Across the Americas there are many different Native cultures, each with unique musical traditions. The National Museum of the American Indian and other branches of the Smithsonian include music and ...

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the remote Peruvian island of Taquile, in the middle of the great Lake Titicaca, hundreds of people stand in silence ...

This five-part audio unit provides a structured, fun introduction to the world of instruments and how they work. See the Introduction below or go to the Teacher's Notes for full details.

So it includes greetings in 55 languages, various musical selections (Beethoven, Senegalese percussion, Melanesian panpipes) ...

Oh, and it all has to remain in budget, too, right? We need a bubble bath soundtracked by panpipes just thinking about it.