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  2. Brass instrument - Wikipedia

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    Brass instruments are one of the major classical instrument families and are played across a range of musical ensembles. Orchestras include a varying number of brass instruments depending on music style and era, typically: two to three trumpets; two to four French horns; two tenor trombones; one bass trombone; one tuba

  3. Family of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Aeolian Instrument family; The keyboard family can also be referenced, though it is not an authentic instrument family. Rather, it is a common design format for instrument interfaces. There are many types of instruments in the keyboard family, such as string, brass (and other metals), woodwind, percussion, electronic, digital, idiophone, and more.

  4. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Instrument Picture Classification ... brass instruments: trumpet Beatboxing: ... (and other members of the violin octet family) chordophones: 3: stringed instruments ...

  5. Category:Brass instruments - Wikipedia

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    A brass instrument is a musical instrument that uses a cupped mouthpiece shaped in a way that allows the player's lips to vibrate to generate the instrument's sound. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Brass instruments .

  6. Ophicleide - Wikipedia

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    Complete family of ophicleides. The ophicleide (/ ˈ ɒ f ɪ k l aɪ d / 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.

  7. Saxhorn - Wikipedia

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    This family of musicians, publishers and instrument manufacturers had a significant impact on the growth of the brass band movement in Britain during the mid- to late-19th century. The saxhorn was the most common brass instrument in American Civil War bands. The over-the-shoulder variety of the instrument was used, as the backward-pointing bell ...

  8. Haas (brass instrument makers) - Wikipedia

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    The Haas family was a German family of brass instrument makers. They had a factory in the city of Nuremberg. Johann Wilhelm Haas (baptized 6 Aug 1649, Nuremberg – buried 2 July 1723, Nuremberg) was the first of the family to make brass instruments. Johann was the son of two generations of guards of the city night watch who played trumpet ...

  9. Mellophone - Wikipedia

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    The mellophone is a brass instrument used in marching bands and drum and bugle corps in place of French horns.It is a middle-voiced instrument, typically pitched in the key of F, though models in E ♭, D, C, and G (as a bugle) have also historically existed.