Brass Instruments - for iPod/iPhone

Technology and acoustical principles. How technical developments through history have affected the design of brass instruments.

Playing the cornet, trombone and trumpet, experts demonstrate hand stopping and lipping.

The keyed bugle and the ophicleide enabled brass instruments to have a distinct voice in the band music of the 19th century.

A revolution in brass. Mechanical means for extending the length of an instrument; valves in the french horn, flugelhorn, trombone, tuba and cornet.

Instruments used in bands today like the sax, horn, tuba, trombone and euphonium, all have numerous valves.

What caused some instruments to survive right through the 20th century and others to fall by the wayside?

How different sizes of trumpet are best suited to different styles of music.

The demands of modern music making. Differences between being an orchestral or a brass band musician

How much of the sound is down to the player, and how much of it is down to the instrument they are blowing through.

A lab experiment investigates the way that lips vibrate in a brass instrument mouthpiece.

Who drives change? Is it composers, inventors or performers? The latest scientific research casts new light on this complex relationship.

Twelve men are challenged to make an authentic trumpet using techniques from before the Industrial Revolution – and they have one week to do it.

A process by process example of brass instrument production in a UK company

A New Sound World - developments in music and brass instruments through computer technology.