Here is a question for you: which instrument, according to novelist Thomas Mann, emits the sound that can be compared to the “silvery blossoming harmony?” You don’t know? Perhaps this hint will help: it was played by the famous bandleader, the King of Swing. Got it? If you are thinking of the clarinet, you are…

In fact, you can also strum or pluck it – though not like a chicken! Electric bass is another name for the bass guitar, a member of the string family along with the “regular” guitar. Like other strings, the bass’s body is made out of wood. However, it is not identical to the classical guitar:…

Blow your creative energies into a trumpet – with Manhattan music lessons  Think trumpet and your mind will likely conjure up images of the great playing this instrument with such skill, mastery, and passion. There were and still are many accomplished trumpeters – Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis among them – but for…