The riskiest instrument is the voice, at least when it comes to spreading viruses such as Sars-CoV2. Compared to breathing quietly, infected people release more than 500 times more particles into the ...

In the past few years there have been several studies that measure how wind instruments spread aerosols. The information has been used to create guidelines for orchestra and band rehearsals, where ...

Wind instrument players have a reduced risk of developing obstructive sleep apnea, a new study shows. "The findings of our small study present an interesting theory on preventative measures or ...

Orchestral ensembles have faced many challenges when starting to perform again during the COVID pandemic, and contamination is a chief concern: specifically, whether wind instruments are vectors of ...

One of the significant casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic has been shared creative activities, particularly singing and producing music together. These are all the more difficult to mitigate in that ...

The 75-year-old Liang Bingguang is a Miao ethnic group member from Wuji village, Rongshui Miao autonomous county, Liuzhou, Guangxi. He started to learn the skills of making reed-pipe wind instrument ...

The "sound of Baekje" has awakened from a 1,400-year slumber. A transverse flute (橫笛), a wind instrument, was discovered at ...