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  2. Bass trombone - Wikipedia

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    The bass trombone (German: Bassposaune, Italian: trombone basso) is the bass instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments.Modern instruments are pitched in the same B♭ as the tenor trombone but with a larger bore, bell and mouthpiece to facilitate low register playing, and usually two valves to fill in the missing range immediately above the pedal tones.

  3. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    C bass saxophone C 2: Bass saxophone: B ♭ 1: Contrabass saxophone: E ♭ 1: Subcontrabass saxophone B ♭ 0: Tin whistle: C 5: Transposes at the octave. Some whistle players treat whistles pitched higher or lower than the "standard" D tin whistle as (additionally) transposing instruments. Trombone Tenor Trombone: C4 When noted in treble clef ...

  4. Jazz trombone - Wikipedia

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    The trombone is a musical instrument from the brass instrument family. Trombone's first premiere in jazz was with Dixieland jazz as a supporting role within the Dixie Group. This role later grew into the spotlight as players such as J.J. Johnson and Jack Teagarden began to experiment more with the instrument, finding that it can fill in roles ...

  5. List of free improvising musicians and groups - Wikipedia

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    Simon H. Fell – double bass. Robert Fripp - guitar, mellotron. Fred Frith – guitar, violin. Cor Fuhler – piano, keyolin, synthesizer. Bernhard Gal – electronics. Joel Garten – piano. Charles Gayle – saxophone, piano, bass clarinet. Seppe Gebruers – the first improvised quartertone pianist. Richard Grayson – piano.

  6. Brass tablature - Wikipedia

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    Brass tablature. Brass Tablature is a rather rare form of music notation that applies to all brass instruments, but is most commonly found written for trumpet [citation needed]. It consists of lines with partials, and numbers representing valve or slide positions.

  7. Pedal point - Wikipedia

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    The repeated d in the first bar is the pedal point. [ 1 ]Play ⓘ. In music, a pedal point (also pedal note, organ point, pedal tone, or pedal) is a sustained tone, typically in the bass, during which at least one foreign (i.e. dissonant) harmony is sounded in the other parts. A pedal point sometimes functions as a " non-chord tone ", placing ...

  8. Glissando - Wikipedia

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    In music, a glissando (Italian: [ɡlisˈsando]; plural: glissandi, abbreviated gliss.) is a glide from one pitch to another (Play ⓘ). It is an Italianized musical term derived from the French glisser, "to glide". In some contexts, it is equivalent to portamento, which is a continuous, seamless glide between notes. In other contexts, it refers ...

  9. Whole-tone scale - Wikipedia

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    Whole-tone scale. In music, a whole-tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbors by the interval of a whole tone. In twelve-tone equal temperament, there are only two complementary whole-tone scales, both six-note or hexatonic scales. A single whole-tone scale can also be thought of as a "six-tone equal temperament".