Credit: Guthman Competition The Guthman Musical Instrument Competition is a glimpse into the future of music-making—one shaped by engineers, musicians, and inventors pushing the boundaries of sound.

Musical innovation and uniqueness is what tends to set great artists apart from their contemporaries. Especially when it comes to the use of creative, unorthodox, or perhaps odd, instruments.

The artist Larry Bell has amassed a vast collection of acoustic instruments ... Unsurprisingly, music lessons were a struggle but, when he was about 17, he saw a strange guitar hanging in a ...