When one thinks “violin,” the images that come to mind are the Stradivari and Guarneri instruments. When one thinks “violinist,” it is usually the superstar concert soloist – the Hilary Hahns, the ...

Orchestral Tools' latest library is called Sångara, and features 70 southeast Asian instruments, some of which have never before appeared in a sample collection before, apparently. Sångara is ...

Ableton´s attempts to bring more ‘traditional´ musicians into its fold are continuing with the launch of its Orchestral Instruments. This new range of Live add-ons has been developed in partnership ...

BERLIN, Germany, January 20, 2023: Orchestral Tools announce the launch of Virtual Orchestration—a new Youtube channel created in collaboration with Berklee College of Music dedicated to learning the ...

Composers have been writing music for the group of instruments we call an orchestra for the last four centuries. Endlessly adaptable and always evolving, an orchestra can be made up of 20 players or ...

DR. RICHARDSON has followed his recent “Text-Book of Sound” with an attractive book founded on the 1929 Martin White lectures given at the Northern Polytechnic, London. The subject of the lectures was ...

John Lennon holds a French horn, but Paul McCartney was the instrument's real fan JASPER REES: Alan Civil, who was the principal horn of the Philharmonia, was the soloist on “For No One”. How did he ...

In 1945, Benjamin Britten wrote The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, showing off the instruments of the orchestra in a short film. Viewers are taken through each section of the orchestra ...

When judged by its size, our vocal system fails to impress as a musical instrument. How then can singers produce all those remarkable sounds? The human vocal system would not receive much acclaim if ...