Yamaha has announced the YDS-150, a first-of-its-kind digital saxophone that's said to offer an authentic acoustic instrument experience – from the sound it makes to the key layout and the sensory ...

There’s a move perfected by middle school orchestra members — mainly clarinet players, in my experience — that emerges directly after a musician makes a jarring mistake during a performance. The ...

Jazz legend John Coltrane routinely pushed his tenor saxophone into the altissimo range, notes far above the instrument’s normal range, and now Australian scientists know how he did it. Physicists at ...

When the reverb is out of this world... Being a curiously inclined species, musicians have long been fascinated with the possibilities of playing their instruments inside cooling towers. (Just listen ...

Love the saxophone? Hitting those high notes is a skill that singers might be able to relate to, an Australian study shows. Physicists at the University of New South Wales in Sydney rigged a small ...