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A brass instrument is a musical instrument whose tone is
produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a tubular resonator.
They are also called labrosones
There are two factors in changing the pitch on a valved brass instrument:
pressing the valves to change the length of the tubing, and changing the
player's lip aperture or "embouchure", which determines the frequency of the
vibration into the instrument.
Families of brass instruments
Modern brass instruments generally come in one of two families:
Valved brass instruments use a set of valves operated by the player's fingers
This family includes all of the modern brass instruments except the trombone:
the trumpet, horn, euphonium, and tuba, as well as the cornet, flügelhorn,
baritone horn, sousaphone, mellophone, and the old saxhorn.
Slide brass instruments use a slide to change the length of tubing. The main
instruments in this category are the trombone family,
Natural brass instruments, where the player can only play notes in the
instrument's harmonic series still played for some ceremonial functions, as well as period
performances.
Keyed or Fingered brass instruments used holes along the body of the instrument,
which were covered by fingers or by finger-operated pads (keys) in a similar way
to a woodwind instrument. These included the cornett, serpent, ophicleide and
keyed trumpet. They are more difficult to play than valved instruments.
Brass instruments may also be characterised by the geometry of the tubing
Cylindrical bore with approximately constant diameter tubing;
Conical bore with constantly increasing diameter tubing;
Brass instrument
Alto horn,
Baritone horn,
Baroque trumpet,
Bass trumpet, Bazooka ,
Buccin,
Buccina, Bugle ,
Buisine,
Carnyx,
Cimbasso, Clarion ,
Contrabass bugle,
Cornet,
Cornett,
Cornettino,
Cornu ,
Double bell euphonium,
Euphonium,
Firebird (trumpet),
Flugelhorn,Flumpet,
Hagmann valve, Helicon , Horn ,
Hosaphone,
Jazzophone,
Kakaki,
Keyed trumpet,
King 3B,
Kuhlohorn,
Martin Committee,
Meinl-Weston,
Mellophone,
Mouthpiece (brass) , Nabal,
Natural horn, Natural trumpet ,
Ophicleide,
Pedal tone,
Phenix Horns,
Piccolo trumpet,
Piston valve,
Pocket trumpet,
Post horn,
Roman tuba,
Rotary valve,
Sackbut,
Saxhorn, Serpent ,
Silver sonic trombone,
Soprano Helicon,
Sotone,
Sousaphone,
Superbone,
Thayer Valve,
Bill Troiano,
Trombone,
Trumpet,
Tuba
Tubachristmas ,Vladimirskiy rozhok,
Wagner tuba, |
