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 ...

The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments reopened Feb. 25 after renovations with a new exhibition, “Resounding Brass.” The rare instruments on display trace centuries of innovations in the evolution ...

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 ...

MINDEN — For many music lovers, a brass quintet sounds like Christmas. Kevin Madden, tuba player for Nebraska Brass, knows one special reason why we so often associate brass instruments with the ...

I failed at the saxophone so I don’t need the 6 easiest brass instruments to play in a band. But maybe you do. Maybe you, unlike me, did not fail at saxophone. Maybe you will pass or even succeed!