Instrument petting zoo helps peak children’s interest in playing music

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

Recorders, the woodwind music instruments, are on the decline in British classrooms

RASCOE: If you somehow managed to escape attending one of these concerts, the recorder is a woodwind music instrument. It's got a thumb hole and seven finger holes. And when it's played by a gaggle of ...
Tampa Bay Times

Pasco repair shop keeps brass, woodwind instruments in tiptop shape

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 ...
Washington Times

Many woodwind musicians make own reeds for their instruments

PITTSBURGH (AP) - On a recent Saturday night, Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida, the principal oboist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, returned to her home in Franklin Park after a performance at Heinz ...
MusicRadar

Slate + Ash's Primaries / Woods uses woodwind instruments as the raw materials for expressive sound design

The next Kontakt instrument in the Primaries series is a "full-spectrum collection of uniquely expressive woodwind articulations" that "captures the physical friction of the woodwind family" When you ...
Science Daily

Used woodwind and brass musical instruments harbor harmful bacteria and fungi, study suggests

Used woodwind and brass instruments were found to be heavily contaminated with a variety of bacteria and fungi, many of which are associated with minor to serious infectious and allergic diseases, ...
The Atlantic

Paging Dr. Hamblin: How Dangerous Are Woodwinds?

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 ...