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 ...

The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments reopened Feb. 25 after renovations with a new exhibition, “Resounding Brass.” The rare instruments on display trace centuries of innovations in the evolution ...

Mike Corrigan, president and master craftsman at B.A.C. (Best American Craftsman), hand-hammered a custom trombone bell, building a new instrument from scratch in the company's downtown factory. Now ...

The demand for E-flat-keyed bugles or over-the-shoulder sax horns being what it is (not very big), building replicas of Civil War-era brass musical instruments is not the major part of Robb Stewart’s ...

New Orleans celebrated Mardi Gras last week with that signature brass band sound. In the seven years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, a local man has played a role in bringing that sound ...