Most oboe and bassoon players perform a tedious task outside of playing their instruments -- making their own reeds ...

The 75-year-old Liang Bingguang is a Miao ethnic group member from Wuji village, Rongshui Miao autonomous county, Liuzhou, Guangxi. He started to learn the skills of making reed-pipe wind instrument ...

Toyohashi Tech's researcher has succeeded in directly predicting sound radiating from a recorder for the first time all over the world. The calculations for this study took two weeks using about 100 ...

It is widely understood that lions, pandas and polar bears are all in serious jeopardy … The fact that bassoons now share this endangered status may come as more of a surprise, but this summer the ...

Brass and reed instruments are very harmonically rich, and some have different tonal qualities depending on how hard you blow them. They can also go very loud and have a highly channelled sound port, ...