I've always held a fascination for musical instruments, the saxophone in particular. Lately I have found myself looking for a distraction not related to technology and learning to play an instrument ...

The legendary actor tells Classic FM’s John Humphrys that she’s a big fan of classical music, and that learning an instrument is particularly appealing in the current climate. Dame Judi Dench is a big ...

The alto saxophone suggestively whispered my name as I walked past it inside the AmeriPawn store. I turned around to see if it was just playing with my head. I haven’t played a sax since my teenage ...

As Praveen Kumar tells it, the Films Division documentary The Sax in the City is the result of “a childhood fantasy come true”. The director of the National Film Award-winning documentary on Madhubani ...

Funk and jazz, said tenor sax player Donny McCaslin, were “part of the musical DNA that I grew up with.” That mix is heard in the funk-fueled jazz of his latest album, “Perpetual Motion.” McCaslin, ...

Curt Sachs in his book, 'The History of Musical Instruments', says, the saxophone “being intermediate between the timbres of wood and brass instruments, passes from the softness of the flute over the ...

Budding musicians learning to play wind instruments need to be careful, doctors have said, after a Greater Taichung man learning to play the saxophone suffered a stroke as a result of blowing too ...

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