But old brass instruments of comparable pedigrees don ... claim to source their metals from the same quarries as their 19th-century predecessors just don’t sound the same.

He took a 19th-century yellow-and-white barn in bucolic Pennsylvania and converted it into a museum to house one of the world’s largest collections of brass instruments and to serve as well as a ...

Since then, he estimates, he has made to order 30 or 40 reproductions of such 19th-century brass instruments. Collectors and history-buff aggregations such as the Regiment Band of the 11th North ...

The composer insisted on the design of a new brass instrument which could play the lowest parts in his opera scores. That new creation, which went on to be featured in many 19th-century Italian opera ...

Most of us are familiar with the modern trombone, the brass instrument with an extendible ... which took over in the 19th century and is with us to this day, "the sackbut's bell is much smaller ...

The earliest brass instruments, up until about the 15th century, were simple, straight tubes with a mouthpiece at one end and a fluted bell at the other. They were used mostly as signaling devices ...

“Brass bands enabled aspiring musicians of all ages to develop new skills and allowed people to make music as a community, learning from each other. "That was the case in the 19th Century and it ...

In this blog post, Tizzano illustrates how Dr. Foster and others of his time had access to a growing collection of surgical instruments ... second half of the nineteenth century, the requisites ...

Since its origins in Great Britain in the mid nineteenth century, the British style brass band has become a popular ensemble around the world. The Magnolia City Brass Band is among Houston’s ...

In this blog post, Tizzano illustrates how Dr. Foster and others of his time had access to a growing collection of surgical instruments ... second half of the nineteenth century, the requisites ...