(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RASCOE: Most kids learn to play the recorder as a bridge to other wind instruments like clarinet or trumpet. But the recorder is no child's instrument. Many of the great ...

Classroom wind-instruments (eg recorders, penny-whistles, pan-pipes, harmonicas), plus a sports whistle and some drinking straws.

For many kids, the wind instrument was either wielded as a weapon or used for playing Hot Cross Buns out of the nose. But the unsung hero of the baroque world, and the bane of parents across ...

Few pick up music for their physical health, and yet, that’s precisely the reason to play instruments like the clarinet, didgeridoo and trumpet, according to experts. Playing a wind instrument ...

Sharing musical instruments means sharing germs Date: May 12, 2011 Source: Tufts University, Health Sciences Summary: Disease-causing bacteria can survive for days on wind instruments and may thus ...

Yonnie Dror specializes in playing wind instruments: duduk, nay, shofar, clarinet, saxophone and diverse flutes. He performs and records with numerous popular Israeli artists and bands ...