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 ...

Steve Bockus used a Bunsen burner's blue flame to do battle with a stubborn, stainless-steel flute. • He lowered the woodwind instrument into the fire, then tested its keys. • Still stuck. So Bockus ...

Playing the flute or trumpet may seem a relatively safe activity. But wind musicians do not realise the risks to their health, a study shows. People who play in the brass or woodwind sections of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jean Hall, executive director of the Wichita Falls Youth Symphony Orchestra, found herself in a difficult position earlier this year, because of Covid-19, like so many other leaders of performing arts ...

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 ...

Unless you sit in the balcony at an orchestral concert, most of the visible musicians are playing string instruments. But at the next concert presented by Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music, the ...

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Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...