"If a flute is silver, why is it a woodwind instrument?""And isn't it a bit strange that a saxophone is gold-plated but still called a woodwind?"These are questions often heard in school brass bands ...

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 ...

Because brass instruments are costly, many owners prefer sending them to Kenya for repairs rather than entrusting them to ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Josh Landress is the owner of J. Landress Brass, a brass-instrument-restoration and -retail company in New York City. He walks us through how he and his team restore ...

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 ...

Brass instruments can summon the stateliness of a symphony orchestra, the smoky exuberance of a jazz club or the swagger of a funk anthem, yet their repertoire is often imagined within narrower ...

Suppose your elementary school child tries playing the trumpet at a trial session and says on the way home, "I want to do ...