Steve Bockus used a Bunsen burner's blue flame to do battle with a stubborn, stainless-steel flute. • He lowered the woodwind instrument into the fire, then tested its keys. • Still stuck. So Bockus ...

At first glance, it clearly doesn’t sound ideal: blowing forcefully through a woodwind instrument in close proximity to other people who are also blowing forcefully through woodwind instruments. Given ...

Cole's Woodwind Shop in Saratoga Springs is a hospital for horns. Here, owner Bill Cole can mend a sound gone wrong. Cole's initial foray into the working world was a little off key. After graduating ...

Just like coughing, sneezing, talking and singing, playing wind instruments ­– particularly those in the brass section – can spread respiratory particles that may carry the COVID-19 virus, according ...

When Daniel Deitch was growing up in Los Angeles in the 1960s, music was his nourishment. His parents were ex-beatniks who played music constantly - everything from Beethoven quartets to John Coltrane ...

Engineers, hackers, and makers can most certainly build a musical gadget of some kind. They’ll build synths, they’ll build aerophones, and they’ll take the idea of mercury delay line memory, two ...

A musician since his childhood in Germany, Friedrich von Huene mastered an array of other talents that he practiced in precise harmony while becoming one of the world’s most sought-after makers of ...

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