Horn in the USA: Building better brass instruments, one part at a time At S.E. Shires, craftspeople work hard to create horns that fit their players exactly right.

“I liked building instruments but I didn’t like the business side of things. I hate the traveling,” he said. Then five years ago he met Kevin Beddoe at a music jam in Temecula.

Building instruments that boldly go into some of the solar system’s most extreme environments presents unique challenges for instrument designers. Keith Cooper explores how they do it In the hot seat: ...

Indeed, the first FPI instrument for the first MMS spacecraft is due to arrive at the Southwest Research Institute in March of 2012. Naturally, it's a busy time.

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. "NASA building instrument to study magnetic reconnection." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 1 May 2011. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 04 / 110429162928.htm>.

Superficially, [Olli]’s instrument resembles an Optigan. While [Olli]’s instrument is capable of producing waveforms, the Optigan is able to reproduce sampled instruments.

"These wonderful, guitar-like instruments for years have required really fancy woods and other things. If you were building a classic Ukulele from the Acacia tree on Hawaii, you'd use something ...