From trombones to flugelhorns, no two art pieces are alike. Locke disassembles some of the brass instruments and welds assorted machine parts to each piece for an industrial look.

Even so, Wallander's WIVI has shown that other synthesis methods can also deliver playable - and more realistic - brass instruments without resorting to massive sample sets or a large CPU hit. Our ...

But old brass instruments of comparable pedigrees don’t enjoy such hagiographies, outside a niche set of brass enthusiasts. Their repair needs can be esoteric, their intonation spotty, the ...

1815: A Prussian composer reports a new contrivance. A local chamber musician has modified his brass concert horn, adding valves that allow him to play all the notes in the chromatic scale deftly ...