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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. Tuba - Wikipedia

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    The ophicleide used a bowl-shaped brass instrument mouthpiece but had keys and tone holes similar to those of a modern saxophone. Another forerunner to the tuba, the serpent , was a bass instrument shaped in a wavy form to make the tone holes accessible to the player.

  4. Trumpet - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Brass - Wikipedia

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    Islamic Golden Age brass astrolabe Brass lectern with an eagle. Attributed to Aert van Tricht, Limburg (Netherlands), c. 1500.. Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, acoustic and chemical properties, [1] but copper typically has the larger proportion, generally 66% copper and 34% zinc.

  6. Musical instrument classification - Wikipedia

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    The criteria for classifying musical instruments vary depending on the point of view, time, and place. The many various approaches examine aspects such as the physical properties of the instrument (shape, construction, material composition, physical state, etc.), the manner in which the instrument is played (plucked, bowed, etc.), the means by which the instrument produces sound, the quality ...

  7. Trombone - Wikipedia

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    The trombone (German: Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate. Nearly all trombones use a telescoping slide mechanism to alter the pitch instead of the valves used by ...

  8. 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 .

  9. Brass tablature - Wikipedia

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    Brass Tablature is a rather rare form of music notation that applies to all brass instruments, but is most commonly found written for trumpet [citation needed]. It consists of lines with partials, and numbers representing valve or slide positions.

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