To be an accomplished oboe or bassoon player it also helps to be a skilled carpenter. What? Sounds crazy, but it's true. Most young music students understand the road they must travel to become ...

Sounds crazy, but it's true. Most young music students understand the road they must travel to become skilled musicians. They must practice their instruments diligently and patiently, and little by ...

The contrabassoon looks like someone took a regular bassoon, stretched it across a room, and then decided to hide most of it inside a coiled metal pipe. When it plays, the floor vibrates. That low, ...

You’re looking for your future major—but let’s be honest, you don’t know what half of them actually entail. This series fills you in on what these majors mean at a liberal arts college, so you can ...

At night, your family sleeping next to you says, "Your snoring is quite loud." Even though you are just sleeping, for some reason, you feel sorry. Moreover, lately, you don't feel refreshed even after ...

Join the Western Michigan University Bands for our annual WMU Summer Band Directors Symposium! Featuring WMU Faculty as well as guest clinicians with extensive education and conducting backgrounds, ...

Woodwinds always add contrasting tone colors to an orchestra. Now with “Frisson Trio d’Anches” we can see the oboe, clarinet, ...

Kristen Smith is instructor of bassoon at the University of Dayton. She is second bassoon in the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra where she has performed for 29 years. An avid musician, she has performed ...

From contrabassoons to harmonicas, we take a look at some of the concertos for more unusual instruments to have found their ...

Musicians are losing jobs, or stretched further in the gigs they can get, as KeyComp and other technologies replace human players in the pit ...