Ameen Mokdad playing violin in Mosul, Iraq. One day, when Ameen Mokdad was 10 years old, he found his father hard at work in their home in Mosul, Iraq. Mokdad's father was an artist, and he was ...

Young musicians from South America are going from the slums to the biggest stages of classical music by turning trash into melody. The group is tuning up for a concert in the Valley this summer.

UA students displayed their engineering innovations Friday afternoon as they presented instruments they designed and created entirely out of scrap metal to a group of about 30 onlookers outside the ...

TAMPA, Fla. — The Pepin Academy Welding program is taking old, unused instruments and turning them into art which will be featured this weekend at the Gasparilla Music Festival in downtown Tampa.

OMAHA - Tavionne Turner grabbed a pair of chopsticks and began banging on junk. His instrument was a mishmash of scrap - cardboard tubes, old metal cans, string, duct tape, feathers and beads - ...

The Orquesta de Intstrumentos Reciclados de Cateura, or Recycled Orchestra, the Cateura, Paraguay-founded youth orchestra who perform with instruments made from recycled materials, performed at the ...