One of the significant casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic has been shared creative activities, particularly singing and producing music together. These are all the more difficult to mitigate in that ...

In the past few years there have been several studies that measure how wind instruments spread aerosols. The information has been used to create guidelines for orchestra and band rehearsals, where ...

Music is an integral part of many of life’s most important moments and is a powerful way to create communal bonds. But the significance of a musical instrument is not only found in the events where it ...

Orchestral ensembles have faced many challenges when starting to perform again during the COVID pandemic, and contamination is a chief concern: specifically, whether wind instruments are vectors of ...

Various studies show that children with asthma can improve their lung function by regularly playing wind instruments. It's also helpful if you have asthma, COPD or cystic fibrosis. Kirsten Neumann/dpa ...

The riskiest instrument is the voice, at least when it comes to spreading viruses such as Sars-CoV2. Compared to breathing quietly, during singing or speaking infected people release more than 500 ...

The airborne spread of pathogens has assumed great importance in the public eye following the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 pandemic). In an interesting new research paper published ...

The study of acoustics and physical modelling in wind instruments bridges classical musical craftsmanship with modern quantitative analysis. This field investigates the complex interplay between ...

Roland has unveiled a new digital wind instrument called the Areophone Pro that's destined for the hands of professional players, and is said to put entire brass and woodwind sections at a player's ...

Although the prehistoric site of Eynan-Mallaha in northern Israel has been thoroughly examined since 1955, it still holds some surprises for scientists. Seven prehistoric wind instruments known as ...