How instruments are made, how they work - and how they sound on their own
World Service,路13 episodes
One of the world's simplest instruments: a hollow tube with holes drilled in it
29 Aug 1996,路4 mins
How a curved wooden box with a neck, four strings, and a horsehair bow, produces music
30 Aug 1996,路4 mins
The woodwind instrument that derives its sound from two thin pieces of cane
30 Aug 1996,路3 mins
The relationship between the lips, the tubing, and the valves
19 Sep 1996,路4 mins
A larger version of the violin, but with a characteristic tone colour all of its own
26 Sep 1996,路4 mins
The wide-ranging reed instrument made from African hardwood with an assortment of valves
01 Oct 1996,路4 mins
With its stretched out, sliding, tubing, the trombone can play any note in its compass
07 Oct 1996,路4 mins
The smaller of the two stringed instruments that sit on the floor
The simple wooden flute that's played vertically
28 Oct 1996,路4 mins
Best known as a jazz instrument, the double bass has kept cab drivers in work for years
The percussion instrument that resembles a big xylophone
The double-reed woodwind instrument that looks like a long wooden tube
01 Nov 1996,路4 mins
One of the oldest instruments known to man - even found in the tomb of Tutankhamen
21 Nov 1996,路4 mins
