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. It is a transposing instrument and is ...

These factors made the oboe the practical choice as the tuning instrument in the Baroque era. By the 1800s, the size and ...

how Chinese instruments fall into eight categories, and the modern four-section orchestra This article serves as an ...

While he tries to recover his own instrument, Mark Gigliotti will be playing Mahler's Symphony No. 9 on a bassoon once played by legendary Philadelphia musician Sol Schoenbach.

In Chinese music, gourds fall into one of the eight categories of instruments and produce some of the most essential sounds in a modern orchestra, such as the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.