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!

While wartime bands included woodwind instruments such as clarinets and bassoons, O'Keeffe points out that the 15th Regiment of Foot had already organized a bugles-only band by 1818 and that numerous ...

Brassed Off tells the story of the Grimethorpe-inspired Grimley Colliery brass band in South Yorkshire Instruments used in a ...

Yale University Press Publishing is offering a special discount on Prof Trevor Herbert’s new book about the banding ...

The Brass Ensemble performs as a brass choir and as the 19th century styled W&M Cornet Band. Membership: Is open to all brass playing Willam & Mary students as well as community members. Musicians in ...

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 ...

Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars established Britain's first brass bands earlier than previously thought, new research reveals. The study undermines the idea that brass bands were ...

Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars established Britain’s first brass bands earlier than previously thought, new research reveals. The study undermines the idea that brass bands were ...