When you watch a marching band stride down a parade route, don't you always feel sorry for the tuba player? Poor kid, having to march with those brass coils wrapped around the body. Well, next time ...

If you’re looking for a musical instrument that is bigger than a trumpet, but smaller than a tuba, yet still packs a powerful punch, the baritone horn might be for you. The broad emotional range of ...

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Mardi Gras parades can be a marathon — and no one knows that better than the people who march the routes on foot, past streets full of joyful, king cake-buzzed, bead-loving Louisianans. While float ...