Playing the violin had never been easy, but she didn't remember it being this hard. In childhood, Dubai-based Yashvi Dhanak had never missed a note on the violin. Instinctively, she knew how to wrap ...

Jimmie Richard watched each of her five children take up an instrument and set it down again before she finally started making her own melodies. She was a mere 69 at the dawn of her musical education.

Learning an instrument can be simultaneously one of the most gratifying and frustrating tasks a person can attempt. The cognitive benefits learning music can provide are vast, as years of scientific ...

Teaching an adult to play an instrument is both easier and harder than teaching a child, teachers say. “ (Kids) don’t understand yet how much of a privilege it is to play an instrument,” says Chris ...

Learning to play an instrument has long been linked to improved reading skills among children, and we may finally understand ...