Playing In A Brass Band Associated With Improved Mental Respiratory Health Study Finds
The research study was based on survey responses and published in a journal, Frontiers in Psychology: Performance Science, and conducted by faculty of the university’s Music Department. Researchers collaborated with Brass Bands England, a coalition of brass bands in the country, to obtain respondents for the study. In the end, they had 346 adult respondents. Among the 295 participants who recorded their age, the average age was 45. The researchers wrote that the range of instruments the respondents played “reflected the levels of instrumentation found within a typical brass band....