Research reveals that Britain’s earliest brass bands were established by military musicians returning from the Napoleonic Wars in the 1810s, debunking the idea that they were solely civilian and ...
Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars established Britain's first brass bands earlier than previously thought ...
An elementary school buzzing with new musical knowledge. A simple combination of five brass instruments takes students from ...
Some thirty-two experts from fifteen countries join three of the world's leading authorities on the design, manufacture, performance and history of brass musical instruments in this first major ...
Wartime bands included woodwind instruments such as clarinets and bassoons ... He said: “It is widely assumed that brass ...
The musical director of the Taupō Concert Band and trombonist in several brass bands, including Taupō, Levin and Hastings, ...
A new study suggests that brass bands, long associated with coal mining and industrialisation, actually date back to the Napoleonic Wars | ITV National News ...
A village brass band for children has won a national ... Gareth, 10, who plays the cornet, said: "Musical instruments make me feel calm and when I play, it puts me in a comfort zone.