The most skilled jesters had several talents and tricks up their sleeves, including dance, acrobatics, pranks, singing and often multiple musical instruments. Jesters often played woodwind and ...

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of ...

Mbira is a musical instrument traditionally from Zimbabwe in Africa. It's sometimes called a thumb piano. Mbira is made from a wooden block, about the size of an adult hand. On top of the wood are ...

A Short Ride In A Fast Machine by John Adams GREG FOOT: This piece of music it's called "A Short Ride In A Fast Machine." "Fran what does it make you think of?" FRAN SCOTT: It makes me think that ...

But these challenges add to the fun building it – I think the effort and energy I put into the instruments gives them character and this is felt by the players. All wooden parts are precisely ...

On Feb. 15, the UW-Eau Claire music department held its second annual Woodwind Day.  This was an all-day event open to the ...