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!

Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Orleans celebrated Mardi Gras last week with that signature brass band sound. In the seven years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, a local man has played a role in bringing that sound ...

DAYTONA BEACH — Bill Birthrong played saxophone in school bands as a young man, but admits that “I never got good it.” “My interest was more in how things work, taking things apart and putting them ...

Walk into Meerut’s Jali Kothi lane and you’ll be welcomed with the sound of music wafting out from virtually every shop here. It’s no surprise – there are over 100 instrument makers ensconced on this ...