The MIDI format has long been used to create some banging electronic music, so it’s refreshing to see how [John P. Miller] applied the standard in his decidedly analog self-playing robotic xylophone.

Have you ever heard of something called Orff? It's not a character in "Star Wars" or "Lord of the Rings." It's actually a method to teach music. K-8 music teacher Shawn Lopez started using the Orff ...

You’re inevitably familiar with the xylophone. In Western culture, it’s a staple in children’s music classes — a toy ostensibly anyone can play. But for the Lobi tribe of northern Ghana, an ancestor ...