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 ...

Christmas Day is just the beginning of 12 Days of Christmas. Hear Philadelphia Brass count down all the way from 12 drummers ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Just like coughing, sneezing, talking and singing, playing wind instruments ­-- particularly those in the brass section -- can spread respiratory particles that may carry the COVID-19 virus, according ...