We have a ton of excellent early music in Seattle. Learn how digging into music’s ancient past can expand our understanding ...

A mouthpiece. Some round, buttonlike keys on top. We all know what a trumpet is. Duh. But that trumpet, the one you played in middle school band or see onstage at Benaroya Hall, has only existed ...

P rofessor Faber’s amazing “talking machine” arrived in Cincinnati to great fanfare in 1872 when that contraption shared a bill at Wood’s Theater with the famous Bandmanns, Daniel and Millicent. The ...

In 60 years, so much has happened that there’s probably another thousand that didn’t make it into the book: Lou Reed sending my brother and I in a limousine to pick up the mouthpiece to my dad’s ...

He had a trumpet player, a female trumpet player ... and my actual fixture is an old New York Myers mouthpiece. Let's do this. It's a shame that they don't make them anymore.

An Inderbinen Wood flugel, a Bach 72 trumpet with brushed lacquer, a Reunion Blues triple leather case, mutes and mouthpieces. “The first time I heard Mat Jodrell play as a very young man, I was ...

He also apprenticed with mouthpiece and mute manufacturers, providing custom trumpet alterations. In addition to his musical accomplishments, Aren owned and operated Van Houzen Brewing Company from ...