Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Various studies show that children with asthma can improve their lung function by regularly playing wind instruments. It's also ...

Here are eight examples of great jazz clarinet playing, in no particular order. I realize I’ve left out Artie Shaw, Barney Bigard, Johnny Dodds and lots of great contemporary players, but these are ...

Learn how the clarinet makes sound and explore its role in the woodwind family. In a hands-on music lesson, Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, ...

I look at my clarinet sometimes and think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know. As Ian Dury might have sung had he played the clarinet, "Hit me with your licorice stick.

In the orchestra, the clarinet sounds exceptionally soft, and at times, like a human voice.Its low notes are warm and ...

Without fanfare, the bass clarinet projects one of the most alluring timbres in all of jazz-a warm, woody, atmospheric sound that acts as a secret ingredient on many classic recordings and gives ...

LONDON — The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which ...