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 ...

Meet the bassoon — a double-reed woodwind instrument with rich tones and intricate fingering. Professor Richard Church introduces young learners to the bassoon and the rest of the woodwind family.

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 ...

The Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra in partnership with the Indiana State School of Music hosted an instrument petting zoo at ...

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 ...

Ever have one of those ideas that’s just so silly, you just need to run with it? [Chris] from Sound Workshop ran into that when he had the idea that became the Pneumatone: a woodwind instrument that ...

Omegasonics based in Simi Valley, CA, announces the launch of its ultrasonic cleaning machines for musical instruments. These machines are manufactured to provide surgical grade cavitation for ...