From American-made Martin acoustic guitars in Pennsylvania to handcrafted ceremonial gongs in Thailand, we traveled the world to uncover the stories behind how different musical instruments are made.

There are three families of musical instruments - string, wind and percussion. When a string is plucked on an instrument such as a guitar, the vibration is passed into the air and you hear a sound.

U Khin Zaw, a pioneering and lively writer on Myanmar/Burmese music described seeing ... Tone, resonance, timbre, capacities and limitations of western instruments are quite different from Burmese ...

"The subject of musical instruments in the rock art ... "This could be because of different instrument type preferences among the groups who made the art, and it shows regional variation, which ...

There are three families of musical instruments ... Students could rotate around the groups to explore all the different types of instrument and how they make sound through vibrations… ...