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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 ...

Few contest that a centuries-old violin will be more coveted than its newer counterparts, assuming it was well-made to begin with. That’s how luthiers like Stradivari and Guarneri have become ...

At 88, Herb Alpert still plays the trumpet like the perky wunderkind who, leading the Tijuana Brass, made the title track of The Lonely Bull a Top 10 hit in 1962. Oh, and the record also kicked off a ...

Cutting-edge computer modelling software has enabled a long-lost, trumpet-like instrument to be recreated – allowing a work by Bach to be performed as the composer may have intended for the first time ...