Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. What is a percussion instrument? Well, in the simplest terms it's something ...

The Orchestral Instrument Collection is the orchestral package Live users have been craving. Only works in Live. No harp or piano. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and producers ...

They’ve got the beet. A touring orchestra using instruments entirely of vegetables just earned itself a world record. The Vegetable Orchestra, which only plays instruments that are carved out of ...

From contrabassoons to harmonicas, we take a look at some of the concertos for more unusual instruments to have found their ...

Orchestras began tuning to the oboe, in part, because its sound was more penetrating in a performance setting than gut strings. There were also fewer oboes than violins, and in the earliest orchestras ...

Violin, viola, cello, double bass and harp are classical family members, but your suggestions may take a bow to other genres and pluck out many a musical gem I felt, at first, the sudden clasp of ...

Members of the French orchestra wore rain covers as they played at the Trocadero, but their instruments were exposed to the elements. “That poor piano in the torrential rain,” the classical music ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. This section of the orchestra got its name from the fact that many of its ...