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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. 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 .

  4. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Instrument Picture Classification H-S Number Origin Common classification Relation Accordina: aerophones: 412.132: France: free reed instruments: accordion

  5. Trumpet - Wikipedia

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    Used singly and in combination these valves make the instrument fully chromatic, i.e., able to play all twelve pitches of classical music. For more information about the different types of valves, see Brass instrument valves. The overall pitch of the trumpet can be raised or lowered by the use of the tuning slide.

  6. 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.

  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. Euphonium - Wikipedia

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    The euphonium is a medium-sized, 3- or 4-valve, often compensating, conical-bore, tenor-voiced brass instrument that derives its name from the Ancient Greek word εὔφωνος euphōnos, [2] meaning "well-sounding" or "sweet-voiced" (εὖ eu means "well" or "good" and φωνή phōnē means "sound", hence "of good sound").

  9. Sousaphone - Wikipedia

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    The sousaphone (/ ˈ s uː z ə f oʊ n / SOO-zə-fohn) is a brass musical instrument in the tuba family. Created around 1893 by J. W. Pepper at the direction of American bandleader John Philip Sousa (after whom the instrument was then named), it was designed to be easier to play than the concert tuba while standing or marching, as well as to carry the sound of the instrument above the heads ...

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