If you want joy, listen to a live symphony. If you want delight, listen to Bill Edgerton's mechanical music. Edgerton is maestro to a veritable museum of mechanized, self-playing instruments. Ten ...

A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.

UTRECHT, The Netherlands — Right off the city’s main commercial thoroughfare, where bicycles zoom past with a clinking sound, is one of the Netherlands’ most surprising treasures, the Museum Speelklok ...