Eric Haitz is the Omaha Public Schools’ band instrument repair technician. Some of his many tasks include removing dents from a trumpet. Eric Haitz repairs the bell of a tuba. Haitz works out of ...

Woodwind instruments wind up with bent bodies, posts or keys, or with pads that leak or deteriorate. "A lot of it's just maintenance," he said. Without that, a musician's performance suffers.

At first glance, it clearly doesn’t sound ideal: blowing forcefully through a woodwind instrument in close proximity to other people who are also blowing forcefully through woodwind instruments ...

Greg Foot and Fran Scott explain how woodwind instruments work and how they make all sorts of different sounds. This clip will be relevant for teaching Science or Music at Key Stage Two or Second ...

Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0. The heckelphone is essentially a cross between a bassoon and an oboe that was invented by the German instrument maker Wilhelm Heckel—apparently at the request ...

The annual spring semester Woodwind Day includes individual master classes and general workshops for all ages and ability levels, with topics ranging from practicing effectively to conquering ...

Recorders, the woodwind music instruments, are on the decline in British classrooms A British music education organization reports that use of recorders are declining in the classroom.

HARBERT — The School of American Music presents a Michigan City Chamber Music Festival (MCCMF) concert for children titled “Wooden Boxes and Pipes!” at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 16 at the ...