His mother's increasing deafness led the young man to study acoustics -- the way we hear and how sounds are made.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

The instrument has the same shape and the same six strings as the traditional guitar, but it sounds very different.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

The driver follows the directions and makes turns based on sounds that the steering wheel makes when it is turned.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

His music is a mix of American country and western, rock and the sounds of the Caribbean islands.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

I was very frightened. The sounds of the cave and the sight of my body forced me away.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

The twenty-five year old plays jazz that is influenced by the sounds of funk,soul, samba and blues music.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

You get down to brass tacks when you say, "it sounds good, but how much does it cost?"

VOA: special.2010.05.16

the thirty-four year old performer continues to combine the sounds of jazz, folk music and the blues.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

He said the first sounds he could remember as a child were those of the Army: the sounds of horns, drums and soldiers marching.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Some of his music sounds like feel good folk and some sounds like down home blues.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

Tom Waits is a singer/songwriter whose voice sounds like a truck crossing over hundreds of stones.

VOA: special.2011.03.21

One music expert said: "Your Cheatin' Heart" is so sad, it sounds like a judge sentencing somebody to a punishment worse than death itself."

VOA: special.2009.11.22

His thirty-second pieces of monkey music also used sounds about as long as the monkeys' calls.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

The name sounds funny but the idea is no joke: a personal toilet called the Peepoo.

VOA: special.2010.03.15