Playing a wind instrument in an orchestra is not unlike participating in the Olympic Games: Athletes and professional musicians have to be strong, fast and agile. As his lungs squeezed air through a ...
Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...
Trumpet players create about 2,500 aerosol particles per liter of air that flows through their instrument. HERBERT NEUBAUER/AFP via Getty Images To stop microbe-carrying droplets from spreading in an ...