Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since 2000. A born browser of dictionaries, he honed his language skills as a US Army linguist (Polish and German) before diving into ...

The Beatles made fantastic music, even when it was just the four of them playing their regular instruments. But their willingness to incorporate other sounds into their formula often paid great ...

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 ...

Over the past few years, musicians and scientists have become aware of the risk of spreading Covid-19 during orchestra practices. Even the Vienna Philharmonic conducted a study to investigate the risk ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Josh Landress is the owner of J. Landress Brass, a brass-instrument-restoration and -retail company in New York City. He walks us through how he and his team restore ...

I failed at the saxophone so I don’t need the 6 easiest brass instruments to play in a band. But maybe you do. Maybe you, unlike me, did not fail at saxophone. Maybe you will pass or even succeed!

Is it safe to sing in a choir, and play wind and brass instruments again? Here’s what we know about the transmission risks involved in making music, as the world still navigates the coronavirus crisis ...

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 ...

1815: A Prussian composer reports a new contrivance. A local chamber musician has modified his brass concert horn, adding valves that allow him to play all the notes in the chromatic scale deftly and ...