From trumpets to tubas, brass instruments are powered by buzzing lips! Dr. Rob and the Crew reveal how vibrations become sound, why bells flare, and how valves and slides change pitch. With balloon ...
Lip-vibrated instruments of the ancient and non-western world / Margaret Sarkissian -- How brass instruments work / Arnold Myers -- Design, technology and manufacture before 1800 / Robert Barclay -- ...
Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since 2000. A born browser of dictionaries, he honed his language skills as a US Army linguist (Polish and German) before diving into ...