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  2. Baroque trumpet - Wikipedia

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    The baroque trumpet is a musical instrument in the brass family. [ 1 ] Its designed to allow modern performers to imitate the natural trumpet when playing music of that time, so it is often associated with it. The term 'baroque trumpet' is often used to differentiate an instrument which has added vent holes and other modern compromises, from an ...

  3. Embouchure - Wikipedia

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    Embouchure (English: / ˈɒmbuˌʃʊər / ⓘ) or lipping[1] is the use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument. This includes shaping the lips to the mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument or the mouthpiece of a brass instrument. The word is of French origin and is related to the root bouche, 'mouth'.

  4. Cornet - Wikipedia

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    The cornet (/ ˈkɔːrnɪt /, [ 1 ] US: / kɔːrˈnɛt /) is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B ♭. There is also a soprano cornet in E ♭ and cornets in A and C.

  5. Trumpet - Wikipedia

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    Ghatam. v. t. e. The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet —with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard B ♭ or C trumpet.

  6. Clarion (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    Clarion is a name for a high-pitched trumpet used in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It is also a name for a 4' organ reed stop that produces a high-pitched or clarion-like sound on a pipe organ in the clarion trumpet's range of notes. [1][2] The word clarion has changed meanings over centuries and across languages.

  7. 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.

  8. Trumpet Concerto (Haydn) - Wikipedia

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    VIIe/1) (Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major) in 1796 for the trumpet virtuoso Anton Weidinger. Joseph Haydn was 64 years of age. A favourite of the trumpet repertoire, it has been cited as "possibly Haydn's most popular concerto". [ 1 ] Although written in 1796, Weidinger first performed the concerto four years later on March 28, 1800.

  9. Recorder (musical instrument) - Wikipedia

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    Recorder (musical instrument) The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as internal duct flutes: flutes with a whistle mouthpiece, also known as fipple flutes, although this is an archaic term.