Music loops specialist Bandmateloops has partnered with Westgate Studios to release a new line of Woodwind Virtual Instruments. Westgate Studios Woodwinds are divided into five volumes, featuring a ...

String instrument players, drummers and pianists are spared the more visceral aspects of playing a wind instrument: the puddles of spit next to each trumpeter’s chair; the swabbing out of every dank ...

A Short Ride In A Fast Machine by John Adams GREG FOOT: This piece of music it's called "A Short Ride In A Fast Machine." "Fran what does it make you think of?" FRAN SCOTT: It makes me think that I'm ...

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 ...

Just like coughing, sneezing, talking and singing, playing wind instruments ­-- particularly those in the brass section -- can spread respiratory particles that may carry the COVID-19 virus, according ...

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, ...

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 ...

This latest in a series of articles on where in London to learn different types of instrument, among other things, focuses on those you blow down/through/into. Woodwind instruments don’t get the ...

Seventeen year-old flautist Sofía Patterson-Gutiérrez, from Stockport, has won the Woodwind Final of BBC Young Musician 2022 and will progress through to the Grand Final of the competition. She is the ...