The riskiest instrument is the voice, at least when it comes to spreading viruses such as Sars-CoV2. Compared to breathing quietly, infected people release more than 500 times more particles into the ...

In the past few years there have been several studies that measure how wind instruments spread aerosols. The information has been used to create guidelines for orchestra and band rehearsals, where ...

One of the significant casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic has been shared creative activities, particularly singing and producing music together. These are all the more difficult to mitigate in that ...

Orchestral ensembles have faced many challenges when starting to perform again during the COVID pandemic, and contamination is a chief concern: specifically, whether wind instruments are vectors of ...

In March 2020, the Skagit Valley Chorale in Mount Vernon, Washington, made headlines after a 2.5 h choir practice transformed into a COVID-19 super-spreader event. Since then, it’s become clear that ...

The airborne spread of pathogens has assumed great importance in the public eye following the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 pandemic). In an interesting new research paper published ...

Learning to play any instrument is hard work, but Roland believes that it's taken some of the strain out of the process with the release of the Aerophone mini digital wind instrument. It may look like ...

Playing a wind instrument, particularly a brass such as a trumpet or trombone, strengthens the muscles in the upper airways Credit: Photo: Alamy Learning to play a wind instrument could be the key to ...