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  2. Buescher Band Instrument Company - Wikipedia

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    Buescher Grand: Silver plated, with gold plated engraving on the bell; Buescher 400: This model had a 12.7 mm (0.500 in) bore. Early examples had slanted braces on the bell section, and slide tubes that were offset by length, with the upper tube roughly 5 cm (2 in) behind the lower (thus making the end bow of the slide slanted as well).

  3. Mouthpiece (brass) - Wikipedia

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    Silver plating is common on all brass mouthpieces because it is cost-effective and good in terms of tone quality. It is also moderately germicidal. Silver plating is not as comfortable [citation needed] or as expensive as gold, but has properties and qualities that some feel facilitate certain styles of playing [dubious – discuss].

  4. Hohner - Wikipedia

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    The Deluxe is also available with a gold-plated mouthpiece and coverplates, known as the Super Chromonica Gold. [9] The Educator 10 is a 10-hole, 40-reed chromatic harmonica built on a plastic comb. It is designed without the valve or windsaver technology found in many other chromatics, and because of its ten holes, it is smaller than most ...

  5. Sankyo Flute Company - Wikipedia

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    Sankyo Flute Manufacturing Co., Ltd, located in Sayama, Japan, produces handmade flutes, piccolos and head joints at the professional level. A number of prominent flautists, such as Walter Auer of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Julien Beaudiment of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, John Curran of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, and Young-ji Song of the Seoul Philharmonic ...

  6. Flute - Wikipedia

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    It is a five-holed flute with a V-shaped mouthpiece and was made from a vulture wing bone. The discovery was published in the journal Nature , in August 2009. [ 26 ] This was the oldest confirmed musical instrument ever found, [ 27 ] until a redating of flutes found in Geißenklösterle cave revealed them to be older, at 42,000 to 43,000 years.

  7. Western concert flute - Wikipedia

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    The bass flute is an octave lower than the concert flute, and the contrabass flute is an octave lower than the bass flute. Less commonly seen flutes include the treble flute in G, pitched one octave higher than the alto flute; soprano flute, between the treble and concert; and tenor flute or flûte d'amour in B ♭ , A or A ♭ [ citation ...

  8. Robert Dick (flutist) - Wikipedia

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    Dick is the inventor of the Glissando Headjoint, a trademarked telescoping flute mouthpiece which allows the flutist to slide and extend notes. [16] As a composer, Dick's work has been recognized by a Koussevitzky Foundation Commission, a Guggenheim Fellowship and two NEA Composers Fellowships, among many grants and commissions.

  9. Brass instrument - Wikipedia

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    Brass instruments may also be characterised by two generalizations about geometry of the bore, that is, the tubing between the mouthpiece and the flaring of the tubing into the bell. Those two generalizations are with regard to the degree of taper or conicity of the bore and; the diameter of the bore with respect to its length.

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