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  2. 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'.

  3. Clarion (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    Courtly, high, brass sound; clarion-like. Sound of the lower pitched Añafil; braying of a donkey. 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]

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. Vincent Bach Corporation - Wikipedia

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    bachbrass.com. The Vincent Bach Corporation is a US manufacturer of brass instruments that began early in the early Twentieth Century and still exists as a subsidiary of Conn-Selmer, a division of Steinway Musical Instruments. The company was founded in 1918 by Austrian-born trumpeter Vinzenz Schrottenbach (Vincent Bach).

  7. 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.

  8. History of the trumpet - Wikipedia

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    History of the trumpet. The chromatic trumpet of Western tradition is a fairly recent invention, but primitive trumpets of one form or another have been in existence for millennia; some of the predecessors of the modern instrument are now known to date back to the Neolithic era.

  9. Firebird (trumpet) - Wikipedia

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    Axel Dörner playing a Firebird trumpet, 2015. The Firebird may be played strictly as a valve trumpet, or using the valves and slide in conjunction. With only the first four slide positions available, some lower notes (low F ♯, G, A ♭, C ♯, D, E ♭, and the second A ♭) require the use of valves.