Here is a multi-organizational study examining the accumulation of aerosols in performing spaces generated by wind instruments and singers.
The results are only preliminary at this point, but very informative. Additional findings will be released July 25.
So much of the advice issued to performing arts organizations so far has been incomplete, and based largely on assumptions. It is refreshing to finally have guidance based on evidence.
^ One of the assumptions that had been out there was that singing was the worst possible case for aerosol spread. This study shows that some instruments can be just as bad, or even far worse. Trombones have an especially large blast radius.
They paid money for *that*? I played bass clarinet, right in front of the trombones--all the researchers had to do was ask....
I mean, anyone who has ever been within a stone's throw of a decent trombone player knows how the sound can nail you. It's just news that they are apparently super-spreaders for viral loads.
@voltronic @northernbassist
Any wind or brass instrument is going to be a virus cannon, they're designed to DIRECT AIR.