Now,there came to my ears a low,dull,quick sound, such as a watch makes when inside a piece of cotton.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

He never returned. But many nights Sylvie heard the sound of his whistle as she came home with her grandmother's cow.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Sony and Philips, another electronics manufacturer, worked together to create a new storage device for digital sound -- the compact disc.

VOA: special.2011.05.11

On an acoustic guitar, the strings vibrate and the hollow part of the instrument, or the sound box,also vibrates.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

The sound had a rougher and more rebellious edge than the highly produced country music coming out of Nashville,Tennessee.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

Nina Simone later told a reporter that she decided just to try to sound like the famous singer Billie Holiday.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

As a boy,Carl said he knew if it was time to go to school by the sound of a train.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

A pickup is a device that captures the vibration of the metal guitar strings and changes them into electronic sound signals.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

She borrowed sound recordings from a musical project by the singer David Byrne to make one song on her new album.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

"I drive everyone crazy trying to get the sound that I hear in my head to come out of the speakers.

VOA: special.2009.08.07

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel combined rock and roll with folk and pop to create their sound in the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

But he later broke away from this neoclassical sound to create a freer and more expressive modernist sound.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

When there is fresh snow on the ground, the surface of the snow takes in, or absorbs,sound waves.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

The sound of American blues music would not be the same without the sad cry of the guitar.

VOA: special.2010.05.12