Yamaha Band & Orchestral Division launches podcasts.

Yamaha Corporation of America, Band & Orchestral (B&O) Division, has launched a bi-weekly updated podcast.

Unlike traditional radio broadcasts that happen on a set schedule, or Internet streams that you can't hear without being tied to your computer, podcasts are downloadable audio files that users can listen to at their leisure using either an application like Apple's iTunes or a portable device such as an MP3 player or Apple iPod. The Yamaha B&O podcast is available through iTunes, and listeners can tune in--and subscribe for automatic future updates--by following the easy instructions at www.yamaha.com/podcasts.

Visitors to the site can hear sessions with Yamaha Trumpet Artists Chase Sanborn and James Thompson, as well as a recorded greeting from the Yamaha wind instrument staff. Future installments will feature jazz saxophone legend Phil Woods, Doug Yeo of the Boston Symphony, Queens College Professor Michael Mossman, Eastman School of Music Professor of Trumpet Jim Thompson, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Principal Trumpet David Krauss, Robert Sullivan of the Cleveland Orchestra, and saxophone group The Capitol Quartet.

For more information, visit Yamaha Corporation of America at www.yamaha.com/band.