You blow the flute across the top of the instrument and you blow air down the clarinet, saxophone and oboe. The brass family includes the trumpet, French horn, trombone and tuba. These are all ...

Now we know that brass bands emerged from Britain’s wars against Napoleon.” Wartime bands included woodwind instruments such as clarinets and bassoons, but the 15th Regiment of Foot had already ...

Research reveals that Britain’s earliest brass bands were established by military musicians returning from the Napoleonic Wars in the 1810s, debunking the idea that they were solely civilian and ...