What is an orchestra? What are the families ... oboe and saxophone. All these instruments are blown in slightly different ways. You blow the flute across the top of the instrument and you blow ...

The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra ... frequency of the vibration - and so makes a ...

Not only is the sound of every violin slightly different, the rate of each ... the placement and number of instruments in an ...

The mute lowers the volume and adds a different tonal quality ... When the tuning ends and the instruments are silent, the ...

Kids and adults tried their hands at an array of instruments under the supervision of band leaders and members of the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra. The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra is back for ...