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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 ...

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 ...

No, the headline isn't just a clever pun. Like John Coltrane and the saxophone, Miles Davis' figure looms large over our ideas about jazz trumpet. The dulcet tones of Kind of Blue and the spaced-out ...

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 ...

Mount Isa teachers say some students are on a waiting list to receive musical instruments due to an overwhelming demand in the past six months. Strings teacher Yvonne Moore says she believes workshops ...