How to play The sound is made by blowing a stream of air into the mouthpiece (known as embouchure), and pressing down on the ... the medieval term claro which referred to an early form of trumpet.

Inspired by acclaimed director Spike Lee’s “Mo Better Blues,” Harris became enamored with the trumpet and at the age of 13 his ... resulting in traumatic injuries to his mouth and embouchure. This ...

St Mary’s Trumpet Call, or Hejnał Mariacki, has been played in Kraków’s Main Square on a daily basis since the 14th century to signal the time. This highly traditional tune is known to almost every ...

The East Butler School District sent seven buses to greet their beloved bus driver at his home and to offer support while he ...

Brass and reed instruments (such as the trumpet or clarinet) require greater strength and losing baby teeth can make forming ...

Dion Dublin heads to the football pitch to explore Haydn's clever concerto. Joseph Haydn was an Austrian musician who spent most of his career in the service of an aristocratic family in Hungary ...

Born with a congenital lung disease, Jonokuchi needed life-saving surgery while in high school to treat a collapsed lung, which caused him to put his trumpet playing aside ... traumatic injuries to ...

Not afraid of practicing a lot even then, Bratton pushed his embouchure so hard while playing his trumpet he bent his teeth back as a kid. He developed a “beaver bite,” he says. To get better ...