According to the National Association of Music Merchants, in 2019 US schools acquired 258,000 brass instruments. Still, the runway to a higher volume of sales is there for S.E. Shires.

Learn about the brass family of instruments — their sounds, mouthpieces and harmonics. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, hosts this ...

All other brass instruments need to go home. We have a winner. From fiendishly exposed entries in Brandenburg Concertos to cruel openings to Bruckner symphonies, the humble French horn has for ...

Horn maker has eye, ear for details; Instruments: From his Boonsboro shop, a former BSO member builds some of the world’s finest French horns. By UPDATED: September 28, 2021 at 8:39 PM EDT ...

The french horn (or horn for short) consists of a very long brass tube, which curls round and round. Originally made from hollowed-out animals' horns, the horn was used for signalling.

1815: A Prussian composer reports a new contrivance. A local chamber musician has modified his brass concert horn, adding valves that allow him to play all the notes in the chromatic scale deftly ...

Photo: Andrew Smith. French Horn The French horn may be the instrument in this list that is easiest on the eye with its graceful curves and peculiar symmetry. You couldn't tell to glance at it but ...

No woman has ever achieved a higher profile on the French horn than Sarah Willis. Why? It's not as if she is a renowned soloist. But she is the first and only woman to join the brass section of the ...

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!

This study examined the medical problems of musicians who primarily perform on a brass instrument. Data for this study (N = 739) were extracted from the University of North Texas Musician Health ...