Scribal Terror

David Daniels, Ombra mai fu

From Handel's Xerxes

Lascia ch'io pianga

Jung is a Korean boy soprano, he's 11 years old, and he's singing Lascia ch'io pianga from Handel's Rinaldo

Introduction to Early Musical Instruments

Video here.

Tromba marina

A tromba marina (or trumpet marine) is probably one of the more unusual instruments that was ever invented.  Fantastic as it may seem, it is a legitimate instrument, and enjoyed a brief Golden Age in the first half of the eighteenth century. The tromba marina's innocent ancestor was the monochord, a single stringed instrument used in medieval monasteries to rediscover the physics of sound, and later to find pitches (the functional precursor to the piano, in that respect).  At some point, the monochord acquired the tromba marina's most distinctive feature: a vibrating bridge.  When played with a bow, the vibration of the string causes one foot of the bridge to vibrate against the soundboard, creating a brassy buzz.  Add to this the fact that you play high harmonics on the long string, and you've got yourself a trumpet. -- Tromba marina.com

Via Mirabilis

Because someone is bound to ask, the guy in the video is speaking Portuguese.

Sidney Bechet with "Down by the Old Mill Stream"

From 1958 French television.

Sergei Lemeshev as Lensky in Eugene Onegin

Che gelida manina Sergei Lemeshev

Tonbak solo

The artist is Sina Khosravi.

Air on a G string

Phillip Achille on harmonica.

Carmen on trombone and trumpet

With Christian Lindberg (trombone) and Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)