Some thirty-two experts from fifteen countries join three of the world's leading authorities on the design, manufacture, performance and history of brass musical instruments in this first major ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. The tuba is the lowest and biggest brass instrument. It has four or five ...

It was previously believed the brass instrument groups began as a civilian and exclusively northern creation, with roots in industrial communities. Now the role of military veterans in ...

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 ...

I don't know but I do thinkwe should probably find out how brass instruments work. Brass instrumentslike this trumpet make sounds when the air inside themis made to vibrate. Vibrating air ...

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 ...