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Everyone knows what a trumpet looks like: shiny brass. But the Instrument of Hope is mostly black. Except for the lead pipe — the straight part that extends from the mouthpiece. It's made of bullets. ...

Brass instruments are notoriously hard to emulate in software, but SampleModeling thinks that it´s hit on a winning formula with The Trumpet. A Kontakt 2 Player-based instrument, this is built around ...

I was listening to the radio the other day, and heard a song that is in my collection. It’s a song I like, but not for the reason you would suspect. I like it for the brass instrument solo. In many ...

At 88, Herb Alpert still plays the trumpet like the perky wunderkind who, leading the Tijuana Brass, made the title track of The Lonely Bull a Top 10 hit in 1962. Oh, and the record also kicked off a ...

On Monday, July 1, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., L.B. Landry High School will be the site of an extraordinary musical event as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, in partnership with NOLA Public ...

A Missoula fifth-grade band student got a late Christmas present this week when she received a trumpet donated by Grammy Award-winning trumpet player Arturo Sandoval. When band began in the fall, ...

Chicago — Smooth trumpet notes fill an empty Chicago street. There is a familiarity from the sounds emitting from the lone instrument. It feels like a modern radio hit with a classic oldie twist. Each ...