Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. The tuba is the lowest and biggest brass instrument. It has four or five ...

A key composing skill is understanding the sounds that musical instruments make and how they can combine together to create a sound, that you want for your composition. A violin is the highest ...

Some thirty-two experts from fifteen countries join three of the world's leading authorities on the design, manufacture, performance and history of brass musical instruments in this first major ...

As the largest section of the orchestra ... The violin is a comparatively quiet instrument, and a solo player cannot be heard ...

3, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra ... to showcase our brass and percussion musicians as much of the fanfare of traditional holiday music is demonstrated through these instruments.