When a mother hit hard times and could no longer afford to pay for her son’s rented instrument, the owner of a Florida music centre saw more than finances, and responded with moving generosity. In a ...

A Missoula fifth-grade band student got a late Christmas present this week when she received a trumpet donated by Grammy Award-winning trumpet player Arturo Sandoval. When band began in the fall, ...

This is the Tromba Marina – an instrument that was popular in medieval and Renaissance Europe and which sounds like literally nothing else we’ve ever heard The ‘marine trumpet’ has one long, thick ...

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I was listening to the radio the other day, and heard a song that is in my collection. It’s a song I like, but not for the reason you would suspect. I like it for the brass instrument solo. In many ...