Look what Tastefully Offensive found that Gizmodo found that we found: a girl playing the Super Mario Bros. theme on a sheng, “a Chinese instrument invented thousands of years ago.” What’s so neat ...

We’re assuming that when the musical instrument known as the sheng was invented in China thousands of years ago, no one knew that it would one day be used to play a magically spot-on version of the ...

It’s fair to say that whoever invented the sheng, an ancient Chinese wind instrument, had no concept of 8-bit Italian plumbers. The golden era of the NES would come a good, oh, 3,000 years in the ...

The soundtrack to Nintendo's 1985 smash-hit Super Mario Bros. is one of the most iconic in all of pop culture, easily recognizable by those both young and old. We've seen the familiar tune played on ...

A video from YouTube user nsofilm features a musical tribute to Super Mario Bros. played on an ancient Chinese instrument known as the sheng. The sheng is a reed instrument dating back as far as 1100 ...

Bright Sheng, a native of Shanghai, has lived in the United States since 1982, studied composition with Leonard Bernstein and writes music in which the traditions of East and West form intriguing, ...