Brass Instruments

Any given length of tubing will produce a specific set of notes on what is called the "overtone series." By making the length longer or shorter, it changes the group of available notes.

If the tubing on a Bb tenor trombone were straightened out, it would meaure 108 inches (or 9 feet) from mouthpiece to bell.

ebay has some pretty crappy, horrible trombones up sometimes, also, try your local high school owned instruments, they're usually pretty horrible.

valves

In the same way as in any music - as directed by the score and the general tone of any improvising. In 12-bar trad. jazz the brass instruments usually share leads, but in rock and pop it often takes a more supporting or rhythmn role.

Yes. The harmonic series is the foundation of how brass instruments work.

No..that could possibly damage the horn.

It depends, what's their day job?

this is why i came here ( it is the basson tho)

Two Octave Gb Trombone Scale

Start on low Gb( 5th position), Ab( 3rd position), Bb( 1st position), BNatural for Trigger T-Bones( T1 2nd position), for P-shooter T-Bones( 7th position), Db( 5th position), Eb( 3rd position), F( 1st position), Gb( 5th position), Ab( 3rd position), Bb( 1st position), BNatural( 4th position), Db( 2nd position), Eb( 3rd position), F( 1st position), Gb( 3rd position).

The instrument Larry the Cucumber plays in the Veggie Tales theme song looks like a Sousaphone, a member of the tuba family that wraps around the body, resting on the shoulder, and is used primarily for marching. The most noticable difference between the Sousaphone that Larry plays and a real one is that Larry's Sousaphone does not have any valves. Also, real sousaphones are much larger than real cucumbers!

You put your lips together loosely and make a bzzzzzzzzz when you vibrate them. Or you have to just rest for a while or play low notes.

Each Instrument has its characteristic sound primarily, but not entirely, because of its sound "spectrum," the combinations of the pitches in its tone. When we listen to the sound of an instrument playing a sustained note, we hear one "pitch." But that note is acoustically "complex"; that is, it is a blend composed of a number of frequencies (pitches), each with its own intensity. When the combination of frequencies and their intensities varies, the quality of the instrument's tone changes, and we recognize a different instrument as the source of the note. Just as an artist can create varying shades of green by mixing varying yellows and blues, a pipe-organ (or an electronic device) can "create" -- imitate -- the sounds of other instruments by combining the various frequencies, each with its required intensity, to match the sound-spectrum of the instrument that is being imitated. Other elements determine to the characteristic tone of the various instruments, but sound-spectrum is the main one. For an advanced discussion of the issue, and of a great number of other issues in the science of the acoustics of music, go to http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/SiteMap.html#general At the page, click on "General Topics" and then on "What is a sound spectrum."

The pitch is changed on a trombone by moving the slide or changing your ombisture.

metal

That is a good question, the reason for this is that traditionally (in orchestral scores) horns were written for in 2 pairs (when 4 horns were used) often in different keys. So basically you had 1st and 2nd in f and 1st and 2nd (really 3rd and 4th) in Bb, for example (the keys vary depending on the key of the work). This tradition has been carried on into modern music so that usually 1st and 3rd horns have the high parts and 2nd and 4th the low ones. The reason that 1st and 3rd and 2nd and 4th horns are often paired in scores is because their parts are usually more similar.

No, not a full octave, but it does have a lower range than a tenor trombone.

the reason why people get screw bells sometimes is to find different kinds of metal bells to get different sounds. there can be 2 different kinds of metals 2get 2 different kinds of tone. The truth is, it really doesn't matter if you get a screw bell or a fixed bell because even if you're not going to get different kinds of metals it still looks cool to have a screw bell. i have a screw bell but both the body of the horn and the bell are rosebrass and it still sounds nice

You play it as written in concert pitch. For example, the C scale will show 2 sharps, but you play it as a C scale, no flats/no sharps. You have to transpose the notes down a step, so you will actually be playing a C and reading a D. It would be easier to learn to read bass clef!

Not really. If it's that big a concern, the only way to get rid of them is to strip the horn's finish and get it replated.

They would have had early forms of trumpets/bugles in different sizes. No valves though, as those weren't invented until hundreds of years later. The names of some of these instruments include cornu and buccina.

It's hard to figure out how to approach this question, but here goes:

Brass instruments change from note to note by combining two different techniques--making the length of the tube longer (making the pitch lower) and by overblowing the tube to make the air vibrate at a higher spot on the harmonic series (making the pitch higher).

The other brass instruments lengthen the tube using valves; when you push a valve down, the air is diverted through an extra piece of tubing. The trombone lengthens the tube by means of the slide. It's the only orchestral or band instrument that does this, and I think it's safe to say that it is harder to learn the exact spot of each position on the trombone slide than it is to learn which buttons to push on the other instruments.

But the other part--overblowing the tube to produce higher notes--is arguably harder on the French horn, because the horn's usual playing range is higher up on the harmonic series than that of the other brass, and the higher you go the closer the different harmonics get together. That makes it harder to pick out the right one, considerably more so than on the trombone or the other brass.

Now which part is harder? I'd have to say that I've heard more beginning students struggle with the French horn than with the trombone. The oboe and bassoon also seem to be harder to learn, or even to get a decent sound from. And the strings have the same challenge as the trombone--they have to develop muscle memory to know exactly where to put their fingers down on the strings for the different notes. I think I've heard more out-of-tune beginning violinists than out-of-tune beginning trombonists, or maybe they were worse out of tune. There's probably something to be said for the relative difficulty of fine motor skills (hitting the right note on a violin string) and gross motor skills (moving a trombone slide to the right position).

All that said, at a more advanced level the trombone presents some issues that the other wind instruments don't. Since the trombone often has to move the slide to change notes, it can be challenging to make a clean transition from one note to another without smearing, especially at a fast tempo. The other instruments just push different buttons.

And above all, though some instruments are harder to learn at the beginning, any instrument is challenging to play really WELL!

It is possible to play a high G on the trumpet. You can play almost about any pitch on the trumpet if your lips are tight enough but they let air flow through.

Same fingerings as trumpet in the treble cleff.

In base cleff they are as followed:

(starting on E below the staff)

E 123 F 13 F#/ Gb 23 G 12 Ab 1 A 2 Bb 0 B 123 C 13 C#/ Db 23 D 12 Eb 1 E 2 F 0 F#/ Gb 23 G 12 Ab 1 A 2 Bb 0 C 1 C#/ Db 2 D 0 Eb 1 E 2 F 0 F# 23 G 12 Ab 1 A 2 Bb 0

(this is basically the range for the baritone)

Depends on the chord.