The 75-year-old Liang Bingguang is a Miao ethnic group member from Wuji village, Rongshui Miao autonomous county, Liuzhou, Guangxi. He started to learn the skills of making reed-pipe wind instrument ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) - On a recent Saturday night, Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida, the principal oboist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, returned to her home in Franklin Park after a performance at Heinz ...

At 26, Liang Wang is new on the job as principal oboe with the New York Philharmonic. The high-pressure post is made just that much more challenging by a detail of the work: Wang makes his own reeds, ...

Brass and reed instruments are very harmonically rich, and some have different tonal qualities depending on how hard you blow them. They can also go very loud and have a highly channelled sound port, ...

KEARNEY — Soak, wrap, scrape and repeat are the steps University of Nebraska at Kearney senior Cole Chancellor takes to create reeds for his musical instruments. Chancellor, a senior oboe performance ...

The oboe is a double-reed instrument and member of the woodwind family. Oboes are usually made of wood, but there are also oboes made of synthetic materials. The oboe is commonly used in concert bands ...

The skirl of a bagpipe is one of the more distinct sounds in the woodwind family. It’s also a sound that’s hard to miss at the Great American Irish Festival, which is taking place this weekend at the ...

Toyohashi Tech's researcher has succeeded in directly predicting sound radiating from a recorder for the first time all over the world. The calculations for this study took two weeks using about 100 ...