Certain applications seem just about impossible for plastic to replace traditional materials. Until today, I figured that "trumpet" belonged on that list. Then I ran across a story from The Telegraph ...

sound at around 98 decibels – equivalent to a hand drill. “After the Belgian national team qualified in October, we said to each other, we have to make something,” Lavalle told Reuters in his office ...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — As South Africa gears up to host next year’s soccer World Cup, there are plenty of doomsayers predicting the worst. If transportation shortages don’t ruin the event, crime ...

Love ’em or loathe ’em, the blaring plastic trumpets have become the hallmark of matches at the 2010 World Cup. We asked Trevor Cox, president of the UK Institute of Acoustics to explain their appeal ...

This workman of the Chicago Musical Instrument Co. is putting the finishing touches on a plastic trumpet for Army buglers. The Army Quartermaster Corps has ordered 10,000. Plastic trumpets (made of ...

BRUSSELS, May 16 (Reuters) - Ear-splitting vuvuzelas were an ever-present backdrop to the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa. Four years on, two Belgian entrepreneurs hope to fill stadiums in ...

Love ’em or loathe ’em, the blaring plastic trumpets have become the hallmark of matches at the 2010 World Cup. We asked Trevor Cox, president of the UK Institute of Acoustics and an acoustic engineer ...