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  2. Brass instrument - Wikipedia

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    This family includes all of the modern brass instruments except the trombone: the trumpet, horn (also called French horn), euphonium, and tuba, as well as the cornet, flugelhorn, tenor horn (alto horn), baritone horn, sousaphone, and the mellophone. As valved instruments are predominant among the brasses today, a more thorough discussion of ...

  3. Brass quintet - Wikipedia

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    A brass quintet is a five-piece musical ensemble composed of brass instruments. The instrumentation for a brass quintet typically includes two trumpets or cornets, one French horn, one trombone or euphonium / baritone horn, and one tuba or bass trombone. Musicians in a brass quintet may often play multiple instruments.

  4. Pitch of brass instruments - Wikipedia

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    Pitch of brass instruments. High brass - from the top left: Baroque trumpet in D, modern trumpets in B ♭ and D (same pitch D as Baroque), piccolo trumpet in high B ♭, Flugelhorn in B ♭; right: cornet in B ♭. The pitch of a brass instrument corresponds to the lowest playable resonance frequency of the open instrument.

  5. French horn - Wikipedia

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    The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B ♭ (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands, although the descant and triple horn have become increasingly popular.

  6. Brass section - Wikipedia

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    The typical brass section of a concert band is as follows: 4–6 Trumpets and/or cornets; 4 French horns; 2–3 Tenor trombones; 1 Bass trombone; 2 Euphoniums and/or baritone horns; 2 Tubas; The brass instruments that are sometimes, but very rarely, used in the concert band: Flugelhorn; Tenor (alto) Horn; Piccolo trumpet; Bass trumpet; Wagner ...

  7. Marching brass - Wikipedia

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    Marching brass instruments are brass instruments specially designed to be played while moving. Most instruments do not have a marching version - only the following have marching versions: Trumpet; Mellophone/French horn; Baritone; Euphonium; Trombone - Flugabone; Tuba (either as a Sousaphone or Contrabass bugle)

  8. Holton (Leblanc) - Wikipedia

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    Frank E. Holton was born March 10, 1858, in Allegan, Michigan to farmers Otis (b. 1827) and Hanna A. (b. 1829) Holton. He grew up with three sisters: Emma E. Holton, Alice Holton and Leona Holton. [2][3] By the time he was 34, Frank Holton was an accomplished trombone player and principal trombone of the Sousa Band, a role that would later be ...

  9. Firebird (trumpet) - Wikipedia

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    Musical instruments. The Firebird is a type of trumpet with the standard three valves and the addition of a trombone -style slide. It was invented by Maynard Ferguson and Larry Ramirez and remains an exceptionally rare, specialist instrument. They were occasionally produced by Holton.

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