I love classical music. I was raised on a diet of Mozart, Bach, and Mendelssohn. Giant orchestras that fill concert halls, pianists whose fingers dart across keys, brass sections that make your gut ...

The bandstand on Plymouth’s Town Common was built in 1903 to provide a dedicated venue for performances of the local and celebrated Keniston Band. The band had become ...

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands. Believed to be made from a sheep’s appendix ...

The wreck captures a tragic moment in maritime history during the 19th century Australian gold rushes. The 800-ton sailing ship was beginning its journey back to the Netherlands in June 1857 when ...

The banjo as we know it emerged on the American mainland in the mid-19th century, around the time that Virginia-born Joel Walker “Joe” Sweeney was popularizing the instrument in blackface ...

with veterans playing a key role in popularising them in the early 19th century. This weekend saw a record 40 bands at Hymers College, in Hull, performing at the National Youth Brass Band ...

Sheppard’s also has three sets of eight aqua-tinted coloured prints by the lesser known 18th century British ... Belleek china, brass fenders to musical instruments (mostly guitars but also ...

Early brass bands also embraced new instrument designs adopted by their military counterparts ... That was the case in the nineteenth century and it’s still the case today.” Dr. O’Keeffe is writing a ...

Taking advantage of new instrument designs developed at home and in Continental Europe, a number of other regiments had established all-brass bands ... the case in the 19th century and it ...

Now we know that brass bands emerged from Britain’s wars against Napoleon.” Wartime bands included woodwind instruments such ... was the case in the 19th century and it’s still the case ...