Banished to the orchestra’s back row, the tuba is rarely highlighted on its own. Playing one is an exercise in breath control ...

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CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a transposing instrument and is ...

Just a few months ago, patrons of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra heard a concerto for saxophone and orchestra, which is a fairly uncommon pairing. This time around, they will experience something ...

It is hard to imagine the double bass — the lowest-pitched member of the violin family that resembles a string instrument on steroids — setting the tone for the Sufi song ‘Dama dam mast kalandar’, but ...

To visit Miller's home studio is to have your soul examined. There, the percussionist sets aside his musical instruments and picks up much rarer implements, including Nepalese bells, Buddhist prayer ...

Few people knew about Uxin, the small banner in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, before the matouqin symphony orchestra was created in May 2013. It was the country's first symphony orchestra ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Orchestra has intervened. The risk of TOF – total organ failure – has been averted. Following significant renovation to its pipe organ this summer, the Cleveland ...