This is the eighth ina series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

Thousands of years ago, the lithophone emerged as a signature musical instrument of the Central Highlands. Local people call it a stone gong. Thousands of years ago, the lithophone emerged as a ...

Roughly ten millennia ago, musicians didn’t lug amps or guitars around to their shows—they lugged lithophones, or instruments made of resonant rocks. The oldest lithophones ever found will be played ...

The lithophone, which looks like a glockenspiel, was created by scientists at the University of Leeds. It is part of a £200,000 project aimed at introducing children to music and science. World ...