From trumpets to tubas, brass instruments are powered by buzzing lips! Dr. Rob and the Crew reveal how vibrations become sound, why bells flare, and how valves and slides change pitch. With balloon ...

Learn about the brass family of instruments — their sounds, mouthpieces and harmonics. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, hosts this exploration of ...

Can you create dance music that gets the floor moving using only brass instruments? For over 100 years, Balkan brass has been ...

You pick up a trumpet that has just been taken out of its case, hold it, and blow without pressing any valves, just as your ...

It took a couple years to figure out all the things that had to come together just right to craft a new trombone for Michael Davis. He was working with the S.E. Shires Company, a small ...

MANKATO — Brass instruments are always in orchestras. French horns, trumpets, trombones, euphoniums, tubas. It’s hard to miss what they add to songs. But when your choir consists only of brass ...

The Beatles made fantastic music, even when it was just the four of them playing their regular instruments. But their willingness to incorporate other sounds into their formula often paid great ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Hillary Simms is the first woman to become a member of the American Brass Quintet. She says the field needs more role models. By Javier C. Hernández ...

Few contest that a centuries-old violin will be more coveted than its newer counterparts, assuming it was well-made to begin with. That’s how luthiers like Stradivari and Guarneri have become ...