Explore musical instruments in the Anacostia ... Listen for the talking drum, one of several instruments collected by Howard University professor Lorenzo Dow Turner. His groundbreaking research told ...

A Short Ride In A Fast Machine by John Adams GREG FOOT: This piece of music ... sound. "The question is how do we make themplay lots of different notes?" It all depends on how much airin the ...

The clarinet is a musical instrument belonging to the woodwind family. It looks similar to an oboe, however it is a single-reed instrument, as opposed to the double-reed of an oboe, and has a very ...

The Museum's music collections contain more than 5,000 instruments of American and European heritage ... Ellington Boatwright collections contain handwritten music compositions, sound recordings, ...

The saxophone - or ‘sax’ - is a woodwind instrument used in classical music (such as concert bands ... As with most types of saxophones, the standard written range is B♭3 to F6 (or F♯6). Above that, ...