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From trumpets to tubas, brass instruments are powered by buzzing lips! Dr. Rob and the Crew reveal how vibrations become sound, why bells flare, and how valves and slides change pitch. With balloon ...
Accompanying DVD has brief demonstrations on period and reconstructed instruments. "Musical illustrations performed by Barry Bauguess, [and many others]"--DVD inserts. DVD format: NTSC on side A, PAL ...
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 exploration of ...
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!
DAYTONA BEACH — Bill Birthrong played saxophone in school bands as a young man, but admits that “I never got good it.” “My interest was more in how things work, taking things apart and putting them ...
From gold rush towns to Mardi Gras parades, brass and concert bands have been the musical backbone of Australian communities over a century.