There are lots of sounds all around us. We use different words to help describe these sounds. In music, pitch is the word we use to describe how high or low a sound is. The squeak of a mouse is a high ...

Twenty-one double bassists from around the world are earnestly putting bows to the strings of their low pitched instruments in Denton, Texas, this week in the hopes of perhaps emerging with a ...

As we launch into an hour of music for low-pitched instruments, we hear from a recording of music for bassoons. Contrabassoonists Susan Nigro (NY-groh) and Burl Lane, with pianist William Eddins, play ...

The deep sound of the baritone saxophone is what Emily Ellmore loves about this low-pitched instrument. This 18-year-old graduating senior from Clear Spring High School has been playing various ...