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  2. Brass instrument - Wikipedia

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    A tenor horn (alto horn) in E ♭, baritone horn in B ♭, and euphonium in B ♭. A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Brass instruments are also called labrosones[1] or labrophones, from Latin and Greek ...

  3. Mnozil Brass - Wikipedia

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    Mnozil Brass is an Austrian brass septet. They play classical, jazz and other styles of music using traditional brass instruments and more unusual instruments such as the customized rotary valved trumpet and bass trumpet. Music is presented with a typical Austrian style of humour, which can be approximately characterized as "jet black" and ...

  4. Serpent (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The serpent is a low-pitched early wind instrument in the brass family developed in the Renaissance era. It has a trombone -like mouthpiece, with six tone holes arranged in two groups of three fingered by each hand. It is named for its long, conical bore bent into a snakelike shape, and unlike most brass instruments is made from wood with an ...

  5. Cimbasso - Wikipedia

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    Wessex. [ 2 ] The cimbasso is a low brass instrument that covers the same range as a tuba or contrabass trombone. First appearing in Italy in the early 19th century as an upright serpent, the term cimbasso came to denote several instruments that could play the lowest brass part in 19th century Italian opera orchestras.

  6. Ophicleide - Wikipedia

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    The ophicleide (/ ˈɒfɪklaɪd / OFF-ih-klyde) is a family of conical-bore keyed brass instruments invented in early 19th-century France to extend the keyed bugle into the alto, bass and contrabass ranges. Of these, the bass ophicleide in C or B ♭ took root over the course of the 19th century in military bands and as the bass of orchestral ...

  7. Wagner tuba - Wikipedia

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    The Wagner tuba is a four- valve brass instrument commissioned by and named after Richard Wagner. It combines technical features of both standard tubas and French horns, [1] though despite its name, the Wagner tuba is more similar to the latter, and usually played by horn players. Wagner commissioned the instrument for his four-part opera cycle ...

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