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String theory: how to make an acoustic guitar – in pictures
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- Tuesday, 03 September 2019
Rosie Heydenrych, an artisan luthier, has been making acoustic guitars by hand for about a decade.
Why Washing Machines Are Learning to Play the Harp
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- Tuesday, 03 September 2019
Appliance makers believe more and better chimes, alerts, and jingles make for happier customers. Are they right?
7 great places to see music instruments being made
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- Tuesday, 03 September 2019
From Steinway pianos in Queens to Kamaka ukuleles in Honolulu, get to the source of these iconic musicmakers.
Prématurés : la musique pour stimuler le cerveau
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- Tuesday, 03 September 2019
Une musique spécialement conçue pour les grands prématurés aide à renforcer le développement des réseaux cérébraux, et pourrait ainsi limiter les retards de développement.
How does music therapy work?
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Music therapy works, but no one is really sure how. Now, a novel type of brain scan may provide key insight.
Listen With Me
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2019
As classical music faces a changing world, so do its critics.
The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Movies about musicians, whether biopics, fictions or documentaries, are a fixture in cinema, but judging by the flurry of activity over the past 12 months, we are in an uncommonly busy period, if not a flat-out golden age.
Could music festivals be good for your health?
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2019
Millions of people around the world go to music festivals each year. At one time, they were seen as encouraging heavy drinking and drug-taking while providing poor facilities and bad food. But now organisers are more focused on festival-goers' wellbeing.
La musique peut-elle rendre les musiciens fous ?
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2019
En ces périodes de grandes incertitudes morales ; où chaque jour les réseaux sociaux déversent directement dans nos consciences la promesse d’une fin plus proche et plus cataclysmique, se tourner vers la musique est probablement la solution de repli la plus saine.
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